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U. S. DEPARqpME^T OF AGRICULTURE, 

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.— ORDER 150. 

A. D. MELVIN, Chief of Bureau. 



REGULATIONS 



GOVERNING 



THE MEAT INSPECTION 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 
OF AGRICULTURE. 



As Amended, Effective May 1, 1908. 



Issued under Authority Conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture 
by the Act of Congress Approved June 30, 1906. 




WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1908. 









U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, D. C, AjJril 1, 1908. 
For the purpose of preventing the use in interstate or foreign com- 
merce of laeat and meat food products which are unsound, unhealth- 
ful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, under the 
authority conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture by the pro- 
visions of the act of Congress approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 674), 
the following regulations are hereby prescribed for the mspection, 
reinspection, examination, supervision, disposition, and method and 
manner of handling live cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, and the car- 
casses and meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, for 
the sanitation of the establishments at which inspection is main- 
tained, and for the transportation of meat and meat food products 
from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia or to any place under 
the jurisdiction of the United States or to any foreign country. 

These regulations, which for purposes of identification are desig- 
nated as B. A. I. Order 150, supersede B. A. I. Order 137, dated July 
25, 1906, and all amendments thereto, and shall become and be 
effective at once. 

James Wilson, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 

[Note. — This edition embodies amendment 1 to B. A. I. Order 150, effective 
May 1, 1908, consisting in tlie addition of paragraph 6 to section 19 of Regulation 25.] 



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DEC 81 1909 



CONTENTS. 



Regulation -1. CopR of inspection 5 

Regulation 2. Organization of force ^ '. 5 

Regulation 3. Interpretation and d^^^^' . i of '^rds and terms 6 

Regulation 4. Inspection or exemption -.' 8 

Regulation 5. Official number 9 

Regulation 6. Assignment of inspectors, etc 9 

Regulation 7. All carcasses and products inspected 10 

Regulation 8. Notice of daily operations, etc 10 

Regulation 9. Bribery 10 

Regulation 10. Sanitation 11 

Regulation 11. Ante-mortem examination and inspection 14 

Regulation 12. Post-mortem inspection at time of slaughter 15 

Regulation 13. Disposal of diseased cai'casses and organs 15 

Regulation 14. "Retaining" rooms 21 

Regulation 15. ' ' Condemned " rooms 22 

Regulation 16. Tank rooms, tanks, and tanking 22 

Regulation 17. Tags, brands, stamps 23 

Regulation 18. Trade labels.. 26 

Regulation 19. Reinspection 28 

Regulation 20. Carcasses of animals not inspected ante-mortem 30 

Regulation 21. Tank cars 30 

Regulation 22. Dyes, chemicals, and preservatives 31 

Regulation 23. Preparation of meat and meat food products 32 

Regulation 24. Stamps for export packages 33 

Regulation 25. Transportation 33 

Regulation 26. Counterfeiting, etc 44 

Regulation 27. Reports 45 

Regulation 28. Appeals 45 

Regulation 29. Cooperation with municipal authorities 45 

Law under which the foregoing regulations are made 46 

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[B. A. I. Order 150.] 

REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MEAT INSPECTION OF THE 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



REGULATION 1. SCOPE OF INSPECTION. 

Section 1. All slaughtering, packing, meat canning, .^^what must be 
salting, rendering, or similar establishments, except as 
hereinafter provided, the meat or meat food products of 
which, in whole or in part, enter into interstate or foreign 
commerce, shall have inspection under these regulations. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may exempt from inspection what may be 
establishments operated by farmers, retail butchers, or''^*'™^* 
retail dealers supplying their customers, but in the 
absence of such exemption inspection is required. 

Section 2. Branch houses of official establishments, Branch houses. 
when such branch houses are engaged in interstate or 
foreign commerce and slaughter animals or process meat, 
shall be considered a part of the parent house, and prod- 
ucts received into such branch houses or sent from them 
shall be subject to these regulations, and inspection shall 
be maintained therein. 

REGULATION 2. ORGANIZATION OF FORCE. 

Section 1 . Paragrapli 1 . All permanent employees ciyu semce 
of the Department of Agriculture engaged in the work of °®' 
meat inspection are appointed upon certification of the 
Civil Service Commission that they have passed the^ 
examination prescribed by that Commission. Promo- 
tions in all classes are made on the basis of efficiency, 
deportment, and length of service. Such employees 
include : 

Paragrapli 2. Inspectors in charge. — These are inspect- inspectors m 
ors assigned by the Bureau of Animal Industry to supervise ° ^^^^' 
official work at each official station. Such employees report 
directly to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
and are chosen by reason of their fitness for responsi- 
bility as determined by their records in the service. At 
stations where slaughtering is conducted, only veterinary 
inspectors are placed in charge. 

Paragraph 3. Veterinary inspectors. — All applicants gpj^^*®^^^'"^' ^^' 
examined for these positions must be graduates of recog- 
nized veterinary colleges having a course of not less than 
three years leading to the degree. All final ante-mortem 
and post-mortem examinations are conducted by veteri- 
narians. At some stations the veterinarians are assisted 



spectors 



ors 



inspectors. 



(5 REGS. 2, 3. ORGANIZATION ; DEFINITIONS. 

in making preliminary examinations by trained laymen 
known as inspectors' assistants. 
Traveling vet- Paraqravli A. Traveling veterinary inspectors. — To ob- 
ors. serve the conditions of sanitation of the establishments 

at the various stations, note the processes of ante-mortem 
and post-mortem inspection, confer with and instruct 
inspectors regarding it, with a view to a uniform sys- 
tem throughout the country, and to report these matters 
to the Washington office, constitute the principal duties 
of these employees. 

i^}iZl^^°^^ ^^' ParagrapTi 5. Laboratory inspectors. — These employees 
possess technical training in microscopical and chemical 
examination of meat food products, and their inspections 
are conducted in laboratories located at various slaugh- 
tering centers. Pathological laboratories are also main- 
tained, to which diseased specimens may be sent when 
necessary for diagnosis. 

Meat inspect- Paragraph 6. Meat inspectors. — These employees are 
laymen, experienced in the curing, canning, packing, or 
otherwise preparing of meat; they supervise that work 
and the use of permitted preservatives described in 
Regulation 22. 

Traveiingmeat Paragraph 7. Traveling meat inspectors. — These em- 
ployees perform a service similar to that required of 
traveling veterinary inspectors, but along the line of the 
preparation and handling of meat products. 

Inspectors' as- Paragraph 8. Inspectors' assistants. — These employees 
are laymen, who are first assigned to routine duties and 
are promoted through examination to higher duties, such 
as assisting in conducting ante-mortem and post-mortem 
examinations. 

Patrolmen. Paragraph 9. Patrolmen. — Patrolmen are employed to 

patrol the establishments at night, to oversee the re- 
ceipts and shipments of meat, and to observe any opera- 
tions conducted at night. They consist of veterinarians, 
inspectors' assistants, or meat inspectors, according to 
the character of the work where assigned. 

Skilled labor Paragraph 10. Skilled laborers. — These employees super- 
vise the marking of meat and meat containers, and per- 
form similar work. They are eligible for promotion only 
through examination. 

REGULATION 3. INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION 
OF WORDS AND TERMS. 

Definitions. Whercvcr ill these regulations the following words, 
names, or terms are used they shall be construed as 
follows : 

ushmeiTt ^^^^^' Section 1. Official establishment. — ^This term shall 
mean any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, rendering, 
or similar establishment at v>diich inspection is main- 
tained under the meat-inspection law approved June 30, 
1906 (34 Stat., 674). 



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KEG. 3. DEFINITIOjSTS. 7 

Section 2. Inspectors and Department employees. — These inspectors, etc. 
terms shall mean, respectively, inspectors and employees 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Section 3. " Inspected and Passed." — This phrase, or inspected and 
any authorized abbreviation thereof, shall mean that the ^^^^'^ 
carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food prod- 
ucts so marked have been inspected and passed for food 
under these regulations. 

Section 4. Rendered into lard or tallow. — This phrase Rendered into 

1,1 jiiii J c J. lard or tallow. 

shall mean that the carcasses, parts or carcasses, meat, 
and meat food products so designated are allowed to be 
made into edible lard or edible tallow. 

Section 5. ^'U. S. Inspected and Condemned.''— This ^J^^^^^Pf^^^^^^^ and 
phrase shall mean that the carcasses, parts of carcasses, 
meat, and meat food products so marked are unfit for food 
and shall be destroyed for food purposes. 

Section 6. Carcass. — This word shall apply to the car- carcass. 
cass of an animal that has been killed under these regu- 
lations and shall include all parts which are to be used 
for food. 

Section 7. Primal parts of carcasses. — This phrase Primai parts. 
shall mean the usual sections or cuts of the dressed 
carcass commonly known in the trade, such as sides, 
quarters, shoulders, hams, backs, bellies, etc., and beef 
tongues, beef livers, and beef tails, before they have 
been cut, shredded, or otherwise subdivided prelimi- 
nary to use in the manufacture of meat food products. 

Section 8. Meat food products. — Paragraph 1. A meat ^^^^eat food prod- 
food product, within the meaning of the meat-inspec- 
tion act and of these regulations, is considered to be 
any article of food intended for human use which is 
derived or prepared in whole or in part from any edible 
portion of the carcass of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, if 
the said edible portion so used is a considerable and 
definite portion of the finished food. 

Paragraplh 2. Mixture. — A mixture of wliich meat is an Mixtures, etc. 
ingredient will not be considered a meat food product 
unless the meat contained therein is a definite and consider- 
able portion of the said mixture. But where such mixture 
is prepared in a part of an official establishment, the 
sanitation of that part of the establishment will be super- 
vised by the Department, and the meat or meat food 
product will be inspected before it enters the said mixture. 
The mixture shall not bear the meat-inspection legend or 
any simulation thereof. If any reference is made to 
Federal inspection it shall be in the following form: "The 
meat contained herein has been inspected and passed 
at an establishment where Federal inspection is main- 
tained." Mixtures such as mince-meat, soups, etc., which 
come under this description and which are not officially 
labeled, are allowed in interstate and foreign commerce 




8 REGS. 3, 4. DEFINTTTONS ; INSPECTION OR EXEMPTION. 

without further inspection, and without certificates, subject 
to the provisions and requirements of the Food and Drugs 
Act of June 30, 1906^ and the regulations made thereunder. ;S 

Medical meat SECTION 9. Medlcal meat products. — Products such as 

pro uc s. nieat juice, meat extract, etc., which are intended only 

for medicinal purposes and are advertised only to the 

medical profession, are not considered meat food products 

within the meaning of this order. ^j^B 

Vinegar. SECTION 10. Vinegar. — The word vinegar, as used 

herein, shall mean cider vinegar, wine vinegar, malt 
vinegar, sugar vinegar, glucose vinegar, or spirit vinegar. 

REGULATION 4. INSPECTION OR EXEMPTION. 

Application for SECTION 1. The proprietor or operator of each slaugh- 

mspection or ex- . ,. , • i • • -i 

emption. tcriug, pacKiug, ineat-canmng, rendering, or similar 

establishment engaged in the slaughtering of cattle, 
sheep, swine, or goats, or in the packing, canning, or 
other preparation of any meat food product for inter- 
state or foreign commerce, shall make application to the 
Secretary of Agriculture for inspection or for exemption 
from inspection, except in cases where inspection or 
exemption is already in effect. In case of change of 
ownership or change of location of an establishment 
already having inspection, a new application shall be 
made. Exemption under the law can be given only to 
establishments operated by retail butchers and retail 
dealers. Such application shall be in writing addressed 
to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, shall 
state the location of the establishment, and shall be 
made on blanks which will be furnished by the Chief of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry upon request. 

Conditions. SECTION 2. luspcction sliall not be begun if an estab- 

lishment is not in a sanitary condition, nor unless the 
establishment provides and guarantees to maintain 
adequate facilities for conducting such inspection. 

Exemption. SECTION 3. If ill the judgment of the Secretary of 

Agriculture the retail butcher or retail dealer who is 
operating an establishment and engaged in suppljdng 
his customers through the medium of interstate or for- 
eign commerce is entitled to exemption from Federal 
inspection, a numbered certificate of exemption will be 
furnished to the applicant for use with transportation 
companies and other companies and persons in secur- 
ing the movement of his products. If an establishment, 
including both market and slaughterhouse of such retail 
butcher or dealer, is not in a sanitary condition a cer- 
tificate of exemption will not be issued. 

tabuXments \^o SECTION 4. Exempted establishments shall be open to 

conform to reg- the iiispcctors of the Burcau of Animal Industry, shall 

be maintained in a clean condition, and shall conform 



EEGS. 5, 6. OFFICIAL JSTUMBEE ; ASSIGNMENT OF INSPECTORS. 9 

to the same regulations as govern official establishments 
in regard to labeling, dyes, chemicals, and preservatives, 
and unsound, unwholesome, and unfit meat. 

REGULATION 6. OFFICIAL NUMBER. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. When inspection is estab- official num- 
lished the Secretary of Agriculture will give the establish- '°^^' 
ment a number, and this number shall be used to mark 
the meat and meat food products of the establishment as 
hereafter prescribed. 

ParaqrapTi 2. Two or more official establishments under More than one 

,1 ^i ,,establ ishment 

the same ownership or control may use the same estab- under same own- 
lishment number, provided a serial letter is added in each'^^^^'P- 
case to designate the establishment and to enable its 
product to be identified. 

Paraqravh 3. Persons, firms, or corporations owning subsidiary 

i_ • J • • 1_ • 1 1 i'j. ,1 " companies. 

subsidiary compames having legal entity may use the 
names of such companies, provided application has been 
made for inspection and it has been granted, the inspec- 
tion legend in such case to bear the official establishment 
number of the parent firm or corporation. 

Paragraph 4- Each official establishment must be .jj^epanvtion^^of 
separate and distinct from any other establishment oruninspcted es- 
department in which animal products are handled at *''^^'^"°"'°*^' 
which inspection is not maintained. When two or more 
companies prepare their products in the same official 
establishment they must obtain inspection under the same 
number. The name of the distributer may appear upon 
the label. 

REGULATION 6. ASSIGNMENT OF INSPECTORS, ETC. 

Section 1. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus- j^^'^p^^'f^^^^^^^^^ 
try will designate an inspector to take charge of the 
inspection at each official establishment, and will assign 
to said inspector such assistants as may be necessary. 

Section 2. For the purpose of enforcing the law and ^^^{1^1^®^^^^^° '^^' 
regulations all employees of the Bureau of Animal Indus- 
try shall have access at all times, by day or night,whether 
the establishment be operated or not, to every part of 
the establishment. 

Section 3. Each employee of the Bureau of Animal Badges. 
Industry working under these regulations will be furnished 
with a numbered badge, which he shall wear over the left 
breast on the outer clothing while in the performance of 
his official duties, and which shall not be allowed to leave 
his possession. This official badge shall be sufficient 
identification to entitle him to admittance at all regular 
entrances and to all parts of the establishment and 
premises. 

Section. 4. Office room, including light and heat, office room. 
shall be provided by proprietors of establishments, rent 
free, for the exclusive use, for official purposes, of the 

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10 KEGS. 7; 8^ 9. ALL INSPECTED ; NOTICE ; BRIBERY. 

inspector and other employees of the Department as- 
signed thereto. The room or rooms set apart for this 
purpose must be properly ventilated, conveniently 
located, and provided with lockers suitable for the pro- 
tection and storage of such supplies as may be required; 
all to meet the approval of the inspector in charge, 

REGULATION 7. ALL CARCASSES AND PRODUCTS 
INSPECTED. 

to'^^inspStfon^'in SECTION 1. All Cattle, sheep, swine, or goats slaugh- 

officiai establish- tercd at an official establishment, and all meat and meat 

food products prepared therein, shall be inspected, 

handled, prepared, and marked as required by these 

regulations. 

REGULATION 8. NOTICE OF DAILY OPERATIONS, ETC. 

ation**'^^ °* °^^'^" Section 1 . The manager of each official establishment 
shall inform the inspector in charge, or his assistant, 
when work has been concluded for the day, and of the 
day and hour when work* will be resumed. Under no 
circumstances shall smj department of an establishment 
be operated except under the supervision of an employee 
Reasonable of the Burcau of Animal Industry. All slaughtering of 

hours and speed, animals and the preparation of meat and meat food 
products shall be done within reasonable hours, and with 
reasonable speed, the facilities of the establishment being 
considered. 

^I^^^^'i^°L™^'^ Section 2. Where one inspector is detailed to conduct 

designate hours. , . hiti i p 

the work at two or more small establishments where tew 
animals are slaughtered or where but a small quantity of 
meat or meat food products is prepared, the inspector in 
charge may designate the hours for work. 

No work on Section 3. No work shall be performed at official es- 

days prohibited iti it- -i i-i i i- 

bylaw. taDiishments during a,iij day on which such work is pro- 

hibited by the law of the State or Territory in which the 
establishment is located. However, the Department will 
require that it be judicially determined that such work 
is prohibited by the State law. 

REGULATION 9. BRIBERY. 

Bribery, etc. Section 1. It is a fclouy, puiiisliable by fine and im- 
prisonment, for any person, firm, or corporation to give, 
pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any Department 
employee authorized to perform any duty under these 
regulations any money or other thing of value with 
intent to influence said employee in the discharge of his 
duty under these regulations. It is also a felony, pun- 
ishable b}^ fine and imprisonment, for any Department 
employee engaged in the performance of duty under 
these regulations to receive or accept from any person, 
firm, or corporation engaged in interstate or foreign 
commerce any gift, money, or other thing of value given 
with any purpose or intent whatsoever. 



BEG. 10. SAISriTATION. 11 

REGULATION 10. SANITATION. 

Section 1. After the receipt of an application for„ Preliminary 

^ . . en 1 !• 1 examination of 

inspection or exemption an examination or the estabhsh- establishments. 
ment and premises Avill be made and the requirements 
for sanitation and the necessary facihties for inspection 
will be specified. 

Section 2. Plans and specifications, in duplicate, of specification^ ^ol 
plants for wliich application for inspection is made, also plants. 
of new plants and plants to be remodeled, should be sub- 
mitted to the Secretary of Agriculture. 

Section 3. Official establishments and establishments Light, ventiia- 
to which certificates of exemption have been issued etc°' *^'^'°^se, 
shall be suitably lighted and ventilated and maintained 
in a sanitary condition, and shall be provided with 
efficient drainage, having properly trapped or other 
approved sewer connections. Rooms in which inspec- 
tion is carried on shall, by heating or other means, be 
kept reasonably free from steam and other vapors, in 
order that proper inspection can be made. All work in 
such establishments shall be performed in a cleanly and 
sanitary manner. 

Section 4. Ceilings, walls, pillars, partitions, etc., ceiiings, waiis, 
shall be kept in a sanitary condition, and when necessary proachel,' etc!" ^' 
they shall be washed, scraped, painted or otherwise 
treated as required. Where fioors or other parts of a 
building, or tables or other parts of the equipment, are 
so old or in such poor condition that they can not be 
readily made sanitary they shall be removed and replaced 
by suitable materials. All floors upon which meats are 
piled during the process of curing shall be so constructed 
that they can be k&pt in a clean and sanitary condition, 
and all meat piled upon floors shall be suitably protected 
from trucks, etc. Walks and platforms or approaches 
leading into establishments shall be kept clean to prevent 
tracking dirt into the same. 

Section 5. All trucks, trays, and other receptacles, all Receptacles, 

1, ijj! ijiij 1111^ Utensils, machm- 

chutes, platforms, racks, tables, etc., and all knives, saws, ery, vehicles, etc. 
cleavers, and other tools, and all utensils, machinery, and 
vehicles used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, 
mixing, canning, or other processes shall be thoroughly 
cleaned before using. 

Section 6. Managers of establishments must require Employees and 
employees to be cleanly. The aprons, smocks, or other *'^^"^' '^^°*'^'°s- 
outer clothing worn by employees who handle meat or 
meat food products shall be of a material that is readily 
cleansed and made sanitary, and only clean garments 
shall be worn. Persons who handle meat or meat food 
products shall be required to keep their hands clean, and 
they shall be required also to pay particular attention to 
the cleanliness of their boots or shoes. 



12 REG. 10. SANITATION. 

pi^yletf^"^ ^™" Section 7. Persons affected with tuberculosis or any- 
other communicable disease shall not be employed in any 
of the departments of establishments where carcasses are 
dressed, meat is handled, or meat food products are pre- 
pared; and any employee of such establishment who may 
be suspected of being so affected shall be reported by the 
inspector in charge to the manager of the establishment 
and to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

toTfeas?'Tnd Section 8. All water-closets, toilet rooms, and dress- 
dressing rooms, ing rooms shall be entirely separated from compartments 
in which carcasses are dressed or meat or meat food 
products are cured, stored, packed, handled, or prepared. 
Where such rooms open into compartments in which 
meat or meat food products are handled they must, 
when this is considered necessary, be provided with prop- 
erly ventilated vestibules and with automatically closing 
doors. They shall be conveniently located, sufficient in 
number, ample in size, and fitted with modern lavatory 
accommodations, including toilet paper, soap, running 
hot and cold water, towels, etc. They shall be properly 
lighted, suitably ventilated, and kept in a sanitary con- 
dition. Convenient and sanitary urinals shall be pro- 
vided; and washstands, near at hand, shall also be pro- 
vided. 

Objectionable SECTION 9. The rooms or Compartments in which meat 

odors, screening, ^ £ ^ ij. i ij.i ii 

cuspidors. or meat rood products are prepared, cured, stored, packed, 

or otherwise handled shall be free from odors from toilet 
rooms, catch basins, casing departments, tank rooms, 
hide cellars, etc., and shall be kept free from flies and 
other vermin by screening, or other methods. All rooms 
or compartments shall be provided with cuspidors of 
such shape as not readily to be upset and of such material 
and construction as to be readily disinfected, and em- 
ployees who expectorate shall be required to use them. 

premiltr^^ °^ SECTION 10. The feeding of hogs or other animals on 
the refuse of slaughterhouses shall not be permitted on 
the premises of an exempted establishment or an official 
establishment, and no use incompatible with proper sani- 
tation shall be made of any part of the premises on which 
such establishment is located. All yards, fences, pens, 
chutes, alleys, etc., belonging to the premises of such 
establishments, whether they are used or not, shall be 
maintained in a sanitary condition, and no nuisance shall 
be allowed in the establishment or on its premises. 

aft^r ^ ' hindiing SECTION 11. Butchcrs who dress or handle diseased 
diseased car- carcasscs or parts shall cleanse their hands of all grease 
and then immerse them in a prescribed disinfectant and 
rinse them in clear water before dressing or handling 
healthy carcasses. All butchers' implements used in 
dressing diseased carcasses shall be sterilized either in 
boiling water or by immersion in a prescribed disinfect- 



EEG. 10. SANITATION. 13 

ant, followed by rinsing in clear water. Facilities for 
such cleansing and disinfection, approved by the in- 
spector in charge, shall be provided by the establishment. 
Separate sanitary trucks, etc., wliich shall be appropri- 
ately and distinctively marked, shall be furnished for 
handling diseased carcasses and parts. Following the 
slaughter of any animal affected with an infectious dis- 
ease, a stop shall be made until the implements have 
been cleansed and disinfected, unless other clean imple- 
ments are provided. 

Section 12. Inspectors are required to furnish their implements 
own implements for use in dissecting, incising, or examin- orl!^ ^^^ inspect- 
ing diseased carcasses or unsound parts, and are required 
to use the same means for disinfecting implements, hands, 
etc., that are prescribed for employees of the establish- 
ment. 

Section 13. Due care must be taken to prevent meat soiled meat. 
and meat food products from falling on the floor; and in 
the event of their having so fallen, they must be con- 
demned or the soiled portions removed and condemned. 
When meat or meat food products are being emptied into 
tanks, some device, such as a metal funnel, must be used 

Section 14. Carcasses shall not be inflated with air inflation with 
from the mouth, and no inflation of carcasses except \)j^"'^^°- 
mechanical means shall be allowed. Carcasses shall not 
be dressed with skewers, knives, etc., that have been held 
in the mouth. Skewers shall be cleaned before being used 
again. Spitting on whetstones or steels when sharpening 
knives shall not be allowed. 

Section 15. Only good, clean, and wholesome water water and ice. 
and ice shall be used in the preparation of carcasses, 
parts, meat, or meat food products. Whenever there is 
any doubt regarding the sanitary condition of the water 
supply, notice shall be sent immediately to the Chief of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Section 16. Wagons or cars in which meat or meat wagons and 
food products are transported shall be kept in a clean and ^^^^' 
sanitary condition. The wagons used in transporting 
loose meat between official establishments shall be so 
closed and covered that the contents shall be kept clean, 
and so constructed that they may, when necessary, be 
locked and sealed with Government seals, which seals 
shall be affixed and broken only by employees of the 
Department. 

Section 17. Skins and hides from animals condemned s k i n s and 
for tuberculosis or any other disease infectious to man, 
but showing no outward appearance of disease, may be 
removed (except as provided in Regulation 13, section 2) 
for tanning or other uses in the arts when disinfected 



i 



14 REG. 11. ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION. 

as follows: Each skin and hide must be immersed for not 
less than five minutes in a 5 per cent solution of liquor 
cresolis compositus, or a 5 per cent solution of carbolic 
acid, or a 1 to 1,000 solution of bichlorid of mercury. The 
process of skinning and dipping must be conducted en- 
tirely in the retaining room, or other specially prepared 
place, approved by the inspector in charge, for final in- 
spection. 

REGULATION 11. ANTE-MORTEM EXAMINATION AND 
INSPECTION. 

in^^cti'(S°whe™ SECTION 1. An autc-mortcm examination and inspec- 
made, etc' tiou sliall be made of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats 
about to be slaughtered before they shall be allowed to be 
killed in an official establishment. Satisfactory facilities 
for conducting said inspection and for separating and hold- 
ing apart from passed animals those marked "U. S, Sus- 
pect" shall be provided. 

mais^^^'^*''*^ ^^^' Section 2, All animals showing symptoms or suspected 
of being affected with any disease or condition which, 
under these regulations, would probably cause their con- 
demnation in whole or in part when slaughtered shall be 
marked by affixing to the animal a metal tag bearing the 
words "U. S. Suspect." All such animals, except as 
hereinafter provided, shall be set apart and slaughtered 
separately from other animals at an official establishment. 

Pregnant, par- SECTION 3. Ajiimals which liavc been tagged for preg- 

turient, and vac- £ i ■ ±t • i_ • j.i F i 

cine animals. uaucy or tor liavmg recently given birth to young, and 
which have not been exposed to any infectious or con- 
tagious disease, and vaccine animals with unhealed lesions 
accompanied by fever and which have not been exposed 
to any other infectious or contagious disease, are not re- 
quired to be slaughtered, but before any such animal is 
removed the tag shall be detached by a Department em- 
ployee and returned with his report to the inspector in 
charge. 

temperature °* SECTION 4. If any pathological condition is suspected 
in which the question of temperature is important, such 
as Texas fever, anthrax, pneumonia, blackleg, or septi- 
cemia, the exact temperature should be taken. Due con- 
sideration, however, must be given to the fact that ex- 
tremely high temperature may be found in otherwise 
normal hogs when subjected to exercise or excitement, 
and a similar condition may obtain to a less degree among 
other classes of animals. 

crtop^r'^^ ^^^ Section 5. Animals commonl}^ termed ''downers," or 
crippled animals, shall be tagged before slaughter as pro- 
vided for in Regulation 17, section 1, for the purpose of 
identification at the time of slaughter, and shall be passed 
upon in accordance with these regulations. 



BEGS. 12, 13. POST-MORTEM INSPECTIOI^ ; DISPOSAL. 15 

REGULATION 12. POST-MORTEM INSPECTION AT TIME 
OF SLAUGHTER. 

Section 1. A careful inspection shall be made of all ^^p^"^*^ ^^^t^'i^ed, 
animals at the time of slaughter. The head, tongue, 
tail, thymus gland, and all viscera, and all parts and 
blood used in the preparation of meat food or medical 
products, shall be retained in such manner as to pre- 
serve their identity until after post-mortem examination 
has been completed, in order that they may be identified 
in case of condemnation of the carcass. Suitable racks 
or metal receptacles shall be provided for retaining such 
parts. 

Section 2. Carcasses and parts thereof found to be sound carcas- 
sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food^'^'^" 
shall be passed and marked as provided in these regu- 
lations. 



Section 3. Should any lesion of disease or other con- unsound car- 
dition that would render the meat or an}^ organ unfit for 
food purposes be found on post-mortem examination, the 
carcass, part or organ shall be marked immediately with a 
tag, as provided in Regulation 17, section 3. Carcasses 
which have been so marked shall not be washed or 
trimmed unless such washing or trimming is authorized 
by the inspector. 

REGULATION 13. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES 
AND ORGANS. 

Section 1. The carcasses or parts of carcasses of all General state- 



ment. 



animals slaughtered at an official establishment and 
found at time of slaughter or at any subsequent inspec- 
tion to be affected with any of the diseases or conditions 
named below shall be disposed of according to the sec- 
tion of this regulation pertaining to the disease or con- 
dition. It is to be understood, however, that owing to 
the fact that it is impracticable to formulate rules cov- 
ering every case, and to designate at just what stage a 
process becomes loathsome or a disease noxious, the 
decision as to the disposal of all carcasses, parts, or 
organs not specifically covered by these regulations shall 
be left to the veterinary inspector in charge. 

Section 2. All carcasses showing lesions of anthrax .^■^^'^''^^ 
or charbon, regardless of the extent of the disease, and 
including the hide, hoofs, horns, viscera, fat, blood, and 
all other portions of the animal, shall be condemned and 
immediately incinerated. The killing bed upon which 
the animal was slaughtered shall be disinfected with a 
10 per cent solution of formalin, and all knives, saws, 
cleavers, and other instruments which have come in con- 
tact with the carcass shall be treated as provided in 
Regulation 10, section 11, before being used upon another 
carcass. 



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16 REG. 13, DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 

Blackleg. SECTION 3. Carcasses of animals showing lesions of 

blackleg shall be condemned. 

Hemorrhagic SECTION 4. Carcasses of animals affected with hemor- 

septicemia. -i • ,- • i, n i i i 

magic septicemia shall be condemned. 
Pyemia and SECTION 5. Carcasses showing lesions of pyemia or 

septicemia. x*-iiii, i i 

septicemia shall be condemned. 

Vaccinia. SECTION 6. Caicasses of vaccinc animals mentioned 

under Regulation 11, section 3, shall be condemned. 

Rabies. SECTION 7. Carcasscs of animals which showed symp- 

toms of rabies before slaughter shall be condemned. 

Tetanus. SECTION 8. Carcasscs of animals which showed symp- 

toms of tetanus before slaughter shall be condemned. 

zootic catarrh^'' SECTION 9. Carcasscs of auimals affected with malig- ■|| 
nant epizootic catarrh and showing generalized inflam- 
mation of the mucous membranes shall be condemned. 

andsliniViigue. SECTION 10. ParagrajjJi 1. Carcasses showing well- 
marked and progressive lesions of hog cholera or swine 
plague in more than two of the organs (skin, kidneys, 
bones, or lymphatic glands) shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 2. Provided they are well nourished, car- 
casses showing slight and limited lesions of these diseases 
may be passed. 

Paragraph 3. Carcasses which reveal lesions more 
numerous or advanced than those for carcasses to be 
passed, but not so severe as the lesions described for 
carcasses to be condemned, may be rendered into lard, 
provided they are cooked by steam for four hours at | 
a temperature not lower th^n 220 degrees Fahrenheit, 
or at a pressure of 4 pounds. 

Paragraph 4. In inspecting carcasses showing lesions 
of hog cholera or swine plague in the skin, bones, kid- 
neys, or lymphatic glands, due consideration shall be 
given to the extent and severity of the lesions found in 
the viscera. 

Actinomycosis SECTION 11. Paragraph i. If a carcass affected with 
or umpyjaw. actinomycosis or lumpy jaw is in a well-nourished condi- 
tion and there is no evidence upon post-mortem exami- 
nation that the disease has extended from a primary area 
of infection in the head, the carcass may be passed, but 
the head including the tongue shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 2. Carcasses of animals showing uncompli- 
cated localized actinomycotic lesions other than, or in 
addition to, those specified in paragraph 1 of this section 
may be passed after the infected organs and parts have 
been removed and condemned. 

Paragraph 3. Carcasses of animals showing a general- 
ized actinomycosis shall be condemned. 



REG. 13. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES^ ETC. 17 

Section 12. When the lesions of caseous lymphadenitis ^^g^^f^9usiyuiph- 
are limited to the superficial lymphatic glands or to a few 
nodules in an organ, involving also the adjacent lymphatic 
glands, and the carcass is well nourished, the meat may 
be passed after the affected parts are removed and con- 
demned. If extensive lesions, with or without pleuritic 
adhesions, are found in the lungs, or if several of the 
visceral organs contain caseous nodules and the carcass 
is emaciated, it shall be condemned. 

Section 13. Paragraph 1. The following principles are Tuberculosis. 
declared for guidance in passing on carcasses affected 
with tuberculosis: 

Principle A. — The fundamental thought is that meat Fundamental 
should not be used for food if it contains tubercle bacilli, ^^°'^s^*- 
if there is a reasonable possibility that it may contain 
tubercle bacilli, or if it is impregnated with toxic sub- 
stances of tuberculosis or associated septic infections. 

Principle B. — On the other hand, if the lesions are Lesions locai- 
localized and not numerous, if there is no evidence of merou^!^ '^°'^^" 
distribution of tubercle bacilli through the blood, or by 
other means, to the muscles or to parts that may be 
eaten with the muscles, and if the animal is well nourished 
and in good condition, there is no proof, or even reason 
to suspect, that the flesh is unwholesome. 

Principle C. — Evidences of generalized tuberculosis Generalized tu- 
are to be sought in such distribution and number of 
tuberculous lesions as can be explained only upon the 
supposition of the entrance of tubercle bacilli in consid- 
erable number into the systemic circulation. Signifi- 
cant of such generalization are the presence of numerous 
uniformly distributed tubercles throughout both lungs, 
also tubercles in the spleen, kidneys, bones, joints, and 
sexual glands, and in the lymphatic glands connected 
with these organs and parts, or in the splenic, renal, 
prescapular, popliteal, and inguinal glands, when several 
of these organs and parts are coincidentally affected. 

Principle D. — By localized tuberculosis is understood Localized tu 
tuberculosis limited to a single or several parts or organs ^'^^^ °^'^' 
of the body without evidence of recent invasion of 
numerous bacilli into the systemic circulation. 

Paragraph 2. The following rules shall govern the dis- ^^^/^^^ ^^°^gj^^'^: 
posal of tuberculous meat: lousmeat. 

Rule A. — The entire carcass shall be condemned — condemned!^'^^^^ 

(a) When it was observed before the animal was killed 
that it was suffering with fever. 

(h) When there is a tuberculous or other cachexia, as 
shown by anemia and emaciation. 

(c) When the lesions of tuberculosis are generalized, as 
shown by their presence not only at the usual seats of 
primar}'' infection, but also in parts of the carcass or the 
organs that may be reached by the bacilli of tuberculosis 
only when they are carried in the systemic circulation. 
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18 REG. 13. DISPOSAL, OP DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 

contmued °^'^~ Tuberculous lesions in any two of the following-mentioned 
organs are to be accepted as evidence of generalization 
when they occur in addition to local tuberculous lesions 
in the digestive or respiratory tracts, including the 
lymphatic glands connected therewith: Spleen, kidney, 
uterus, udder, ovary, testicle, adrenal gland, brain, or 
spinal cord or their membranes. Numerous uniformly 
distributed tubercles throughout both lungs also afford 
evidence of generalization. 

{d) When the lesions of tuberculosis are found in the 
muscles or intermuscular tissue or bones or joints, or in 
the body lymphatic glands as a result of draining the 
muscles, bones, or joints. 

(e) When the lesions are extensive in one or both body 
cavities. 

(f) When the lesions are multiple, acute, and actively 
progressive. (Evidence of active progress consists in 
signs of acute inflammation about 'the lesions, or lique- 
faction necrosis, or the presence of young tubercles.) 

condeLned^^"^^^ Rule B. — An organ or a part of a carcass shall be 
condemned — 

{a) When it contains lesions of tuberculosis. 

(6) When the lesion is immediately adjacent to the 
flesh, as in the case of tuberculosis of the parietal pleura 
or peritoneum, not only the membrane or part affected 
but also the adjacent thoracic or abdominal wall is to be 
condemned. 

(c) When it has been contaminated by tuberculous ma- 
terial, through contact with the floor, a soiled knife, or 
otherwise. 

{d) All heads showing lesions of tuberculosis shall be 
condemned. 

{e) An organ shall be condemned when the correspond- 
ing lymphatic gland is tuberculous, 
carcasspassed. Rule C. — The carcass, if the tuberculous lesions are 
lim.ited to a single or several parts or organs of the body 
(except as noted in Rule A), without evidence of recent 
invasion of tubercle bacilli into the systemic circulation, 
shall be passed after the parts containing the localized 
lesions are removed and condemned in accordance with 
Rule B. 
dered^intofarfor B,ule D. — Carcasscs which rcveal lesions more numer- 
taiiow. ous than those described for carcasses to be passed (Rule 

C), but not so severe as the lesions described for carcases 
to be condemned (Rule A), may be rendered into lard or 
tallow if the distribution of the lesions is such that all 
parts containing tuberculous lesions can be removed. 
Such carcasses shall be cooked by steam at a tempera- 
ture not lower than 220 degrees Fahrenheit for not less 
than four hours. 

Texas fevpr. SECTION 14. Carcasscs showiug lesions to warrant the 
diagnosis of Texas fever shall be condemned. 



EEG. 13. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 19 

Section 15. Carcasses of sheep affected with parasitic Parasitic icte- 

. , 1 J • 1 11 1 1^1 ^ ro-hematuna. 

ictero-hematuna shall be condenined. 

Section 16. Carcasses of animals affected with mange, Mange or scab. 
or scab, in advanced stages, or showing emaciation or 
extension of the inflammation to the flesh, shall be con- 
demned. When the disease is slight the carcass may be 
passed. 

Section 17. Paraqraph 1. Carcasses of animals af- Tapeworm 

cvsts 

fected wdth tapeworm cysts, known as Cysticercus 
hovis and C. cellulosse, shall be rendered into lard or tal- 
low, unless the infestation is excessive, in which case the 
carcass shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 2. Carcasses of animals found infested with 
gid bladderworms {C^vnurus cerehralis, Multiceps soci- 
alis) may be passed after condemnation of the infected 
organ (brain, spinal cord). 

Paragraph 3. Carcasses or parts of carcasses found in- 
fested with the hydatid cyst (echinococcus) may be 
passed after condemnation of the infected part or organ. 

Section 18. All carcasses of animals so infected that infections that 
consumption of the meat or meat food products thereof ™o1sonfng.° ^^^^ 
may give rise to meat poisoning shall be condemned. 
This section covers all carcasses showing signs of — 

(a) Acute inflammation of the lungs, pleura, peri- 
cardium, peritoneum, or meninges. 

(?>) Septicemia or pyemia, whether puerperal, trau- 
matic, or without any evident cause. 

(c) Severe hemorrhagic or gangrenous enteritis or 
gastritis. 

{d) Acute diffuse metritis or mammitis. 

(e) Polyarthritis. 

(J) Phlebitis of the umbilical veins. 

{g) Traumatic pericarditis. 

(Ji) Any other inflammation, abscess, or suppurating sore 
if associated with acute nephritis, fatty and degenerated 
liver, swollen soft spleen, marked pulmonary hyperemia, 
general swelling of lymphatic glands, and diffuse redness 
of the skin, either singly or in combination. 

Immediately after slaughter of any animal so diseased 
the premises and implements used must be thoroughly 
disinfected as prescribed elsewhere in these regulations. 
The part of any carcass coming into contact with the 
carcass or any part of the carcass of any animal covered 
by this section, other than those affected with the dis- 
eases mentioned in (a) above, or with the place where 
such animal was slaughtered, or with the implements 
used in the slaughter, before thorough disinfection of 
such place and implements has been accomplished, or 
with any other contaminated object, shall be condemned; 
in case the contaminated part is not removed from the 
carcass within two hours after such contact the whole 
carcass shall be condemned. 



20 KEG. 13. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CAECASSES, ETC. 

Icterus. Section 19. Carcasses affected with icterus and show- 

ing an intense yellow or greenish yellow discoloration 
after proper cooling shall be condemned. Carcasses 
which exhibit a yellowish tinge directly after slaughter, 
but lose this discoloration on chilling, may be passed for 
food. 

Uremia and SECTION 20. Carcasses which give off the odor of urine 

sexual odor. , - i n i i i 

or a strong sexual odor shall be condemned. 

Urticaria, etc. SECTION 21. Hogs affcctcd with Urticaria (diamond 
skin disease) Tinea tonsurans, Demodex folliculorum, or 
erythema may be passed after detaching and condemn- 
ing the skin, if the carcass is otherwise fit for food. 

Melanosis, etc. SECTION 22. Carcasses of animals showing any dis- 
ease, such as generalized melanosis, pseudo-leukemia, 
etc., which affects the system of the animal, shall be 
condemned. 

br^u^iTes ^aV SECTION 23. Any Organ or part of a carcass which is 
scesses, li'verbadly bruised or which is affected by tumors, malignant 
flukes, etc. ^^ benign, abscesses, suppurating sores, or liver flukes 
shall be condemned; but when the lesions are so exten- 
sive as to affect the whole carcass, the whole carcass 
shall be condemned. 

Emaciation SECTION 24. Carcasses of animals too emaciated or 

and anemia. . , , , , , , i • i 

anemic to produce wholesome meat, and carcasses which 
show a slimy degeneration of the fat or a serous infiltra- 
tion of the muscles, shall be condemned. 

raOroadsIckneM SECTION 25. Carcasscs of auimals showing symptoms of 
milk fever or railroad sickness at the time of slaughter shall 
be condemned, as the flesh of such animals is frequently 
darker in color and more watery than is natural, and the 
present view of the pathology of at least the first disease 
suggests autointoxication. 

Pregnancy and SECTION 26. Carcasscs of auimals in advanced stages of 

parturition. . , . . /• - •>.• \ i <• 

pregnancy (showing signs or parturition) , also carcasses or 
animals which have within ten days given birth to young 
and in which there is no evidence of septic infection, may 
be rendered into lard or tallow if desired by the manager 
of the establishment; otherwise they shall be condemned. 

Immaturity. SECTION 27. Carcasses of auimals too imrnature to pro- 
duce wholesome meat, all unborn and stillborn animals, 
also carcasses of calves, pigs, kids, and lambs under three 
weeks of age, shall be condemned. 

Section 28. In all cases where carcasses showing local- 
ized lesions of disease are passed or rendered into lard or 
tallow, the diseased parts must be removed before the 
"U. S. Retained" tag is taken from the carcass, and such 
parts shall be condemned. 



REGS. 13, 14. DISPOSAL; EETAINIKG EOOMS. 21 

Section 29. Hogs which have been allowed to pass suffocation. 
Into the scalding vat alive or have been suffocated in 
other ways shall be condemned. 

Section 30. All animals that die in abattoir pens, and Dead animals, 
those in a dying condition before slaughter, shall be con- 
demned and tagged as provided in Regulation 17, sec- 
tion 2. In conveying to the tank animals which have 
died in the pens of the establishment, they shall not be 
allowed to pass through compartments in which food 
products are prepared. No dead animals shall be brought 
mto an establishment for rendering from outside the 
premises of said establishment unless permission is first 
obtained from the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Section 31. When a portion of a carcass is to be con- Bmised parts. 
demned on account of slight bruises, the bruised portion 
shall be removed immediately and tanked, and the re- 
mainder of the carcass shall be marked "Inspected and 
Passed." When desired, a retaining room may be pro- 
vided in one part of the cooler for the retention of such 
carcasses until after they are chilled, when the bruised 
portion may be removed. 

Section 32. Portions of intestines that show evidences ^J?'^*'^^^ °^ '°- 
of infestation with esophagostoma or other nodular affec- 
tions shall be condemned. 

Section 33. Hog carcasses found before evisceration Evisceration of 
has taken place to be affected with an infectious or conta- '^^^^^ °^^" 
gious disease, including tuberculosis, shall not be evis- 
cerated at the regular killing bed or bench, but shall be 
taken, separate from other carcasses, to the retaining 
room or other specially prepared place and there opened 
and examined. 

REGULATION 14. "E-ETAINING" ROOMS. 

Section 1. Separate compartments, to be known as Retaining 

(I . . . ^,, 4.1, • 1 1 i! £ 1 • rooms; descrip- 

retammg rooms, or other special places tor linal mspec- tion. 
tion, shall be set apart at all official establishments, and 
all carcasses and parts marked with a "U. S. Retained" 
tag shall be held in these rooms pending final inspection. 
These rooms shall be rat proof, large enough for carcasses 
to hang separately, furnished with abundant light, and 
provided with sanitary tables and other necessary appa- 
ratus; the floors shall be of cement, asphalt, metal, or 
brick laid in cement, and shall have proper sewer connec- 
tions. They shall be provided with facilities for locking, 
and locks for this purpose will be furnished by the Depart- 
ment. The keys to such locks shall remain in the custody 
of the inspector or his assistant. In establishments 
where it is impracticable or undesirable to have refrigera- 
tion in the retaining room, rooms may be constructed in 
the cooler for the reception and chilling of carcasses not 



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22 EEGS. 15, 16. CONDEMNED KOOMS ; TANKS, ETC. 

affected with infectious diseases but which require further 
inspection. 
s tftfon^'^^^ '°' Section 2. Retained carcasses shall be subjected to a 
^^ ' final inspection, and immediately after this is completed 

those found to be wholesome and fit for human food shall 
be released by the veterinary inspector conducting the 
inspection, who shall remove the "U. S. Retained" tags, 
and the carcasses shall be removed from the retaining 
room and marked "Inspected and Passed,'' as provided 
in Regulation 17, section 5. 

Disinfection. SECTION 3. The floors and walls of all retaining rooms 
shall be washed with hot water and disinfected after dis- 
eased animals are removed and before any "retained" 
carcasses are again placed therein. 

REGULATION 15. "CONDEMNED" ROOMS. 

room^-*^d™sc'ri "^ SECTION 1. In each establishment at which condemned 
tion. ' carcasses or meat food products are held until the day fol- 

lowing their condemnation there shall be provided a room 
entirely separate from all other rooms in the estabUsh- 
ment. This room shall be secure, rat proof, and shall be 
provided with a lock, the key of which shall remain in the 
custody of a Department employee. This room shall be 
known as the "condemned room," and shall be kept 
locked at all times except when condemned meat or meat 
food product is being taken into or from the said room 
under the supervision of a Department employee. The 
condemned room shall be kept clean. 

Disposal of un- SECTION 2. Carcasscs or parts of carcasses found on 

fit carcasses or ^ i . . . . -, ^i i i j i p i i i 

parts. nnal inspection to be unsound, unhealthiul, unwholesome, 

or otherwise unfit for human food shall be marked "U. S. 
Inspected and Condemned," as provided in Regulation 
17, section 4, and shall be immediately removed from the 
retaining room to the "condemned room," if such con- 
demned room is provided. In case no condemned room 
is provided they shall be locked in the retaining room and 
shall be tanked at or before the close of the day on which 
they are condemned. 

po^saf^of *^con- SECTION 3. Condemned carcasses shall not be allowed 

aemned carcass- to accumulate, but sliall be removed from the "condemned 

^®" room," denatured as provided in Regulation 16, section 3, 

or tanked within a reasonable time after condemnation. 

vided'^^^^ pi'°- Section 4. A truck or trucks of sufficient capacity, 
plainly marked, and which can be locked or sealed, shall, 
when required by the inspector in charge, be provided for 
handling condemned meat. 

REGULATION 16. TANK ROOMS, TANKS, AND TANKING. 

se\^rate*c o^m' SECTION 1. All tanks and equipment used for rendering 
partments. and preparing edible product shall be in compartments 
separate from those used for rendering inedible product, 
and there shall be no connection by means of pipes or | 



REGS. 16;, 17. TANKS, ETC. ; TAGS, BRANDS, STAMPS. 23 

otherwise between the tanks or departments containing 
inedible product and those containing edible product. 
This provision must be complied with on or before Octo- 
ber 1, 1908. 

Section 2. Paragra'ph 1. All condemned carcasses, Method of 
parts of carcasses, and meat food products shall be tanked ^^^ "^' 
as follows: 

Paragra'ph 2. After the lower opening and the draw-off 
valves of the tank have been securely sealed by an 
employee of the Department and the condemned car- 
casses, parts, and meat food products are placed therein 
in his presence, the upper opening shall be likewise 
securely sealed by such employee, whose duty it shall be 
then to see that a sufficient force of steam (not less than 
40 pounds, producing a temperature of 288 degrees 
Fahrenheit) is turned into the tank and maintained a 
sufficient time (not less than six hours) effectually to 
render the contents unfit for any edible product. Wire 
and lead seals are provided by the Department for sealing 
tanks. Proprietors of establishments are required to 
equip all tanks used for condemned products so that they 
may be securely sealed in the manner above specified. 

Paragraph 3. A sufficient quantity of coloring matter 
or other substance to be designated by the Department 
shall be used in connection with the rendering of all con- 
demned carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food 
products to destroy them effectually for food purposes. 

Paragraph 4- The seals of tanks containing condemned 
meat or the tankage thereof shall be broken only by an 
employee of the Department, and such employee shall 
supervise the drawing off of the contents of such tanks 
and the marking of the tallow and grease as inedible. 

Paragraph 5. If an official establishment fails to permit 
the treatment and tanking of condemned carcasses, parts 
of carcasses, meat, or meat food products as required by 
these regulations, the inspector in charge shall report that 
fact to the Department, in order that inspection may be 
withdrawn from such establishment. 

Section 3. Any meat or meat food products condemned .^^^ *^? absence 
at establishments which have no facilities for tanking shall ties.*^" '°^ 
be freely slashed with a knife and then denatured with 
crude carbolic acid or other prescribed agent, and then 
removed to an establishment indicated by the inspector 
in charge and there tanked and rendered under the super- 
vision of an employee of the Department; or such meat 
or meat food products may be destroyed by incineration 
under the supervision of an employee of the Department. 

REGULATION 17. TAGS, BRANDS, STAMPS. 

Section 1. To each animal inspected under Regulation " u. s. suspect" 
1 1 which shows symptoms or is suspected of being affected ^^^' 
with any disease or condition which under these regTila- 



24 REG. 17. TAGS, BKANDS, STAMPS. 

tions ma}^ cause its condemnation in whole or in part on 
post-mortem inspection there shall be affixed by a De- 
partment employee at the time of inspection a numbered 
metal tag bearing the words "U. S. Suspect," w^hich shall 
remain upon the animal until final post-mortem inspection, 
when the carcass shall be marked according to the condi- 
tions found, and disposed of as elsewhere provided in these 
regulations. 

'^ d'^'ta*^""' Section 2. To the ear of each animal which is found in 
a dying condition or dead on the premises of an establish- 
ment there shall be affixed by a Department employee a 
numbered tag bearing the words "U. S. Condemned." 
The ear bearing the tag shall not be removed from the 
carcass. The number of this tag shall be reported to the 
inspector in charge by the employee who affixes it. This 
tag shall accompany the condemned carcass into the tank, 
and the Department employee who is supervising the tank- 
ing shall make a report of the number to the inspector in 
charge. 

tained"teg ^'^" SECTION 3. Upou cach carcass, or part or detached 
organ thereof, inspected under Regulation 12, in which 
any lesion of disease or other condition is found that might 
render the meat or any organ unfit for food purposes, and 
which for that reason would require a subsequent inspec- 
tion, there shall be placed by a Department employee at 
the time of inspection a tag, numbered in duplicate, bear- 
ing the words ''U. S. Retained," and such other marks of 
identification shall be used as shall be approved by the 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. The inspector 
who attaches this "U. S. Retained" tag shall detach the 
numbered stub thereof and forward it with his report to 
the inspector in charge. The other portion shall accom- 
pany the carcass to the retaining room. 

"u. s. In- Section 4. Each carcass, or pa.rt or detached organ 
demned/'^ °"' thereof, whicli is found on final inspection to be unsound, 
unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human 
food shall be marked conspicuously by a Department 
employee at the time of inspection with the words "U. S. 
Inspected and Condemned." The "U. S. Retained" tag 
shall accompany the carcass into the tank, and the number 
thereof shall be reported b}^ the employee who supervises 
the tanking. If, however, upon final inspection the car- 
cass or part thereof is passed, the "U. S. Retained" tag 
shall be removed and returned to the inspector in charge. 
A record of the tag showing the serial number, the linal 
disposal of the carcass or part to which it was affixed, 
the date, and the name of the inspector shall be forwarded 
with the regular reports to the inspector in charge. 

Marking passed SECTION 5. Upou all passcd carcasscs slaughtered 

"" "" under inspection there shall be placed by an employee of 

the Department, or by an employee of the establishment 

under the supervision of an employee of the Depart- 



carcasses. 



KEG. 19. EEINSPECTION. 29 

try, and if upon any such reinspection an}^ carcass or part 
thereof is found to have become unsound, unheal thful, 
unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food the 
original mark, stamp, tag, or label shall be destroyed or 
defaced and the carcass or part shall be condemned. 

Section 2. Except as provided in Regulation 20, only Reinspection of 
carcasses and parts thereof, meat, or meat food products J^cl'i^ved^atTffl- 
wliicii have not been processed except under Government ^i^^i^ estabUsh- 
supervision, and which can by marks, seals, brands, or 
labels be identified as having been previously inspected 
and passed by a Department employee, shall be taken 
into or allow^ed to enter an official establishment. All 
such carcasses, parts, meat, or meat food products which 
are brought into one official establishment from another, 
or which are returned to the establishment from which 
they issued, shall be identified and reinspected at the time 
of receipt, and shall be subject to further reinspection in 
such manner and at such times as may be deemed neces- 
sary. If upon any such reinspection any carcass or part 
thereof, or meat or meat food product, is found to have 
become unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any 
way unfit for human food, the original mark, stamp, tag, 
or label shall be defaced or destroyed, and the carcass, 
part, meat, or meat food product shall be condemned. 

Section 3. Special docks and receiving rooms shall be special places 
designated by the estabhslunent for the receipt and inspection. 
inspection of all meat or meat food products, and no meat 
or meat food products shall be allowed to enter the es- 
tablishment except in the presence of a Department 
employee. 

Section 4. Unrendered fats from carcasses which have^ Returned fats 

,. Ill 1 ii 11 •! from inspected 

been inspected and passed may be returned and received carcasses, 
into official establishments, provided the fats have been 
handled in a sanitary manner after leaving the estab- 
lishment, and provided further that upon inspection the 
fats are found to be clean, sweet, wholesome, and fit for 
human food. However, the return of such fats to 
official establishments and the manner in which they 
shall be handled from the time they leave such estab- 
lishments until their return thereto shall be governed by 
such specific instructions as may be issued from time to 
time by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Section 5. Inedible fats may be received only into the inediwe fats. 
tank room provided for inedible products, and when so 
received they shall not enter any compartment used for 
edible products. 

Section 6. Paragraph 1. In order to provide for the Market inspec 
interstate transportation, from public markets' and 
other places, of portions of inspected and passed car- 
casses, parts, and meat food products which, when cut or 
otherwise rernxoved from a marked carcass, part, or con- 



30 REGS. 19, 20; 21. UNINSPECTED CARCASSES ; TANK GARS. 

tainer, do not show the inspection mark and can not 

therefore be identified as having been inspected and 

Each city as-passed, market inspection may be furnished. Each city 

signe a num er. -^ ^j^icJ^ market inspection is estab fished wifi be assigned 
a number, afid ah products forwarded under such inspec- 
tion shafi bear the inspection legend and the official num- 
ber assigned to the city. 

tiSS^arkec^"'^' Paragraph 2. Unmarked portions which are cut from 
the marked carcass or part, or are removed from the 
marked container for interstate transportation, shall be 
marked by a Department employee. Wherever practi- 
cable the brand shall be applied to the meat itself ; where 
this can not be done the true container of the meat or 
meat food product shall be marked as required by the 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

offanitatiOT,^te. Paragraph 3. All market stalls or other places which 
are given market inspection shall be maintained in a 
sanitary condition and shall also conform to the require- 
ments of the Department governing the use of drugs, 
chemicals, dyes, and preservatives. 

REGULATION 20. CARCASSES OF ANIMALS NOT IN- 
SPECTED ANTE-MORTEM. 

an^mffs^Tot in- SECTION l.'^ Carcasses of auimals which have had no 
spec ted ante- ante-mortem inspection by inspectors of the Bureau of 
mor em. Animal Industry will not, except as hereinafter provided, 

be admitted into an official establishment. The excep- 
tion to this rule applies only to carcasses to which the 
head and all viscera, except the stomach, bladder, and 
intestines, are held by the natural attachments. Such 
carcasses, if offered for admission into official estab- 
lishments, shall be inspected, and if found to be free 
from disease and otherwise sound, healthful, wholesome, 
and fit for human food they shall be marked "Inspected 
and Passed '^ and admitted. If found to be diseased, 
unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit 
for human food, they shall be marked ''U. S. Inspected 
and Condemned," and the proprietor of the establish- 
ment shall be required to destroy them for food purposes, 
as provided in Regulation 16, section 2. 

REGULATION 21. TANK CARS. 

must be sealed.^ ' SECTION 1. Tank cars Carrying edible meat food prod- 
ucts into interstate or foreign commerce shall be provided 
with proper appliances for sealing and be securely sealed 
with seals furnished by the Department and affixed by 
Department employees. 

tentsTJb(mts°'^' SECTION 2. When such products for export are trans- 
ferred from tank cars to other containers on boats, such 
transfer shall be under Government supervision, and the 
said containers on boats shall likewise be sealed. 

« Formerly Regulation 62, B. A. I. Order 137. 



REG. 22. DYES, CHEMICALS, PEESERVATIVES. 31 

REGULATION 22. DYES, CHEMICALS, AND PRESERVA- 
TIVES. 

Section 1. No meat or meat food product shall contain pyes, preserve 
any substance which lessens its wholesomeness, nor any prXbited.'^^'^'^* 
drug, chemical, dye, or preservative, except as hereinafter 
provided. 

Section 2. Paragraph 1. There may be added to meat what is per- 
or meat food products common salt, sugar, wood smoke, 
vinegar, pure spices, and saltpeter. Only such coloring 
matters as may be designated by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture as being harmless may be used, and these only in 
such manner as the Secretary of Agriculture may des- 
ignate. 

Paragraph 2. Substances necessary for the preparation, 
clarification, or refining of meat food products will be 
permitted to be used subject to the approval of the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture, provided they are eliminated from 
the meat food products during the further process of 
manufacture. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1, In accordance with the writ- pgf^'jl^^^^/j^'^g^^ 
ten direction of the foreign purchaser or his agent, meat port products. 
or meat food products prepared for export may contain 
preservatives of a kind and in proportions which do not con- 
flict with the laws of the foreign country to which they are 
to be exported ; but when such meat or meat food products 
are prepared for export under this regulation they shall be 
prepared in compartments of the establishment separate 
and apart from those in which meat or meat food products 
are prepared for the domestic trade, and such products 
shall be kept separate. Distinctive export certificates 
and stamps will be issued for meat or meat food products 
of this character, but, if the products are not exported, 
under no circumstances shall they be allowed to enter 
domestic trade. 

Paragraph 2. The packing of meat which is prepared, in^™ hln°iemfn 
as provided in paragraph 1 of this section, with any preservatives are 
preservative not permitted by paragraph 1, section 2,^^*^ ' 
may be done in the regular packing room, provided that 
no other meat is allowed in the packing room during the 
time of such packing. After such packing is completed 
the packing room shall be thoroughly cleansed of the . 
preservative before the packing of other meat therein is 
resumed. A separate compartment constructed of tight 
partitions or walls shall be set apart for storing the pre- 
servative trays and other appliances used in connection 
with the packing. The Department will furnish a lock 
and key for this compartment, and the packing of all 
meat under this section shall be conducted under the per- 
sonal supervision of an employee of this Department. 



32 REG. 23. PKEPABATION OP MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 

REGULATION 23. PREPARATION OF MEAT AND MEAT 
FOOD PRODUCTS. 

lianceT^tc ^^' SECTION 1. All piocesses used in curing, pickling, ren- 
dering, canning, or otherwise preparing meat or meat 
food products in official establishments shall be super- 
vised by Department employees. No fixtures or appli- 
ances, such as tables, trucks, trays, tanks, vats, machines, 
implements, cans, or containers of any kind shall be used 
unless they are clean and sanitary. All steps in the 
process of manufacture shall be conducted carefully and 
with strict cleanliness. All salt, pickling fluids, and other 
solutions or substances used in curing meat must be clean. 

sterilization SECTION 2. Canned meat or meat food products which 
earned products, require sterilization to preserve them must be subjected to 
this process on the same day that the cans are filled. De- 
fective or leaking cans discovered after the process of 
sterilization has been completed shall not be repaired or 
repacked (unless such repairing or repacking is done within 
six hours of the time of original sterilization), but the 
contents of such cans shall be removed and condemned. 

Potato flour, SECTION 3. Potato flour shall not be used in the prepa- 
cerea s, wa er. ^q^^^qj-^ q£ sausage, uor shall cxccssive quantities of cereals 
or water be used. 

Rendering. SECTION 4. Paragraph 1. The manufacture of all fats 

into lard, tallow, oils, and stearin at official establish- 
ments shall be closely supervised by employees of the 
Department, who shall see that all portions of carcasses 
rendered into edible products are clean and wholesome. 

Heads. Paragraph 2. Heads rendered into edible product shall 

first be split, cross sectioned, and thoroughly washed and 
cleaned. 

Hogs' feet. Paragraph 3. When hogs' feet are used for lard, the 

hair, hoofs, and the tissues of the interdigital spaces must 
be removed. 

ent'^coiors'^^fo'^r Paragraph J^. All pipes and similar conveyers used in 

edible and inedi- couductiug cdlblc f ats froiu oue rcceptacle or container to 

another shall be of a distinctly different color from the 

pipes and similar conveyers used in conducting inedible 

fats from one receptacle or container to another. 

Diagrams of Paragraph 5. Blueprints or other accurate diagrams 

T51T)G lines «7 JL X ^ c^ 

showing all underground pipe lines or other conveyers 
used to conduct edible and inedible products at official 
establishments and also those extending from official 
establishments to other establishments, either official or 
unofficial, with a description giving the exact location, 
terminals, and dimensions of such pipes, or other con- 
veyers, and of all gates, valves, or other controlling 
apparatus, shall be filed with the Department, and a copy 
of such prints cr diagrams shall be filed with the inspector 
in charge. The prints or diagrams should designate the 
lines used for conveying edible products and those used 
for conveying inedible products. If no such under- 



KEGS. 23, 24, 25. EXPORT STAMPS; TEANSPORTATION. 33 

ground pipes or conveyers are used for the purposes above 
indicated, a written statement certifying to this fact and 
duly signed by the management of each estabhshment 
shall be filed with the Department. 

Paragrafli 6. All containers, such as vats and tierces, jj^^^'^^^^^f^l^^j.^o* 
in which white grease or other inedible meat products ucts to be 
are placed, shall be plainly marked '' inedible" in such"^^'^®^' 
a manner that they can be readily identified. 

Paragrapli 7. Final containers, such as tierces, shall becontliiSrt'^'^^* 
appropriately marked on both ends immediately after 
filling. 

Section 5. The only animal casings that may be used casings. 
as containers in the manufacture of sausage under these 
regulations are those from cattle, hogs, sheep, or goats. 

REGULATION 24. STAMPS FOR EXPORT PACKAGES. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. Numbered meat-inspection Export stamps. 
stamps shall be affixed to packages (except those in cloth 
wrappings) containing meat or meat food products to be 
shipped or otherwise transported in foreign trade. 

Paragrapli 2. Stamps shall be affixed in the following gtam°p\®°*'°'^ ^°^ 
manner, and when they have been affixed they shall be 
covered immediately with a coating of transparent 
varnish or other similar substance: 

(a) The stamp may be affixed in a grooved space made in a grooved 
by removing a portion of the wood of sufficient size to^^^'^''" 
admit the stamp. 

(Jb) The stamp may be placed on either end of the on the ends. 
package, provided that the sides are made to project at 
least one-eighth of an inch to afford the necessary pro- 
tection from abrasion. 

Section 2. Inedible-product stamps and certificates For inedible 

, T ^- 1 , ^ 1 • , products. 

may, upon request, be issued to accompany slupments 
for export of casings, bladders, bungs, hoofs, and other 
similar inedible animal products. 

REGULATION 25. TR AN SPORT ATION.« 

Section 1. Upon the application of the exporter the cate1f°when'*'is- 
inspector in charge of an establishment is authorized to^'^^d. 
issue certificates for export shipments of inspected and 
passed meat or meat food products. The certificate 
should be issued at the time the product leaves the 
establishment; if, however, the certificate is not issued 
at that time, it can only be issued upon identification 
and reinspection of the product. 

Section 2. These certificates shall be issued in serial ^^^0™!^^'^™^^- 
numbers and in tripHcate form. Each certificate shall 

o The transportation of meat or meat food product from one point in 
a State or Territory to another point in the same State or Territory, 
when in course of shipment the meat or meat food product is taken 
through another State or Territory, is interstate commerce. 



34 EEG. 25. TRANSPOKTATION. 

show the names of the exporter, and the consignee, the 
destination, the numbers of the stamps attached to the 
article to be exported, the shipping marks, the kind of 
product, and the weight. 

One certificate SECTION 3. Only one Certificate shall be issued for 
ment^"^ ''°'^^'^' each consignment unless otherwise directed by the Chief 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Disposal of Section 4. Both the original and duplicate certificates 

pVi^iafe'^certifl- shall be delivered by the inspector to the shipper. The 

cates. copy of Certificate provided by law to be delivered to 

the chief officer of the vessel shall be the duplicate copy 

and shall be filed with the customs officers at the time of 

filing the master's manifest or the supplemental manifest. 

certificate nee- SECTION 5. No master of any steam or sailing vessel 
t?an^ortat?on!^'^ shall rcccive for transportation or transport from the 
United States to Great Britain or Ireland, or any of the 
countries of continental Europe, or to Argentina or 
. Mexico, any carcass, part of carcass, or meat food prod- 
uct of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, except ship stores, 
unless and until a certificate of inspection covering the 
same has been issued and delivered as provided in this 
regulation. The requirement of export certificates is 
waived for meat and meat food products to foreign 
countries other than those hereinbefore named. 

Inedible grease SECTION 6. When inedible grease, inedible tallow, or 
and inedible tai-^j^g^ll_^lg stcariu derived from cattle, sheep, swine, or 
goats is offered for export, the collectors of customs, 
under instructions from the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor, will require an affidavit from the exporter that 
the products to be exported are inedible and are not 
intended for food purposes. 

Requirement SECTION 7.*^ No persou, firm, or Corporation shall re- 

ot certificates. • £ j. j.x" j. j. jt oj-j. 

ceive tor transportation or transport from one State or 
Territory or the District of Columbia to another State or 
Territory or the District of Columbia any carcass, part of 
carcass, or meat-food product of cattle, sheep, swine, or 
goats unless and until a certificate is made and furnished 
in one of the forms prescribed in sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 
of this regulation, showing that such meat or meat food 
product has been either inspected and passed or exempted 
from inspection, according to act of Congress of June 30, 
1906: Provided, That printed certificates in the forms 
formerly required and now on hand may be used for this 
purpose. It is necessary, as old stocks of printed certifi- 
cates are exhausted, that new ones be printed in the new 
forms. 

Movement in SECTION 8." When any shipment of meat or meat food 

pari oreign. ppoducts covercd by these regulations is offered to any 

common carrier for carriage within the United States as 

a Formerly Regulation 52, B. A. I. Order 137. 



EEG. 25. TRANSPOKTATION. 35 

a part of a foreign movement, the same certificate shall 
be required as if the shipment was destined to a point 
within the United States. 

Section 9." Paragraph 1. Shipments of inspected and ^ ^Diversion of 
passed meat or meat food products that are so marked bre^Ting ^"f 
may be diverted from the original destination without agln^y '" emer- 
reinspection of the product, if a new certificate showing 
the changed destination be given to the carrier by the 
owner or shipper, who may or may not be the original 
shipper; or in case of a wreck or other extraordinary 
emergency the carrier may divert such shipments from 
the original destination without a new shippers' certificate. 

Paragraijih 2. The Government seals on a car contain- 
ing inspected and passed meat or meat food products 
may be broken by the carrier in case of wreck or other 
extraordinary emergency, and if necessary the product 
may be reloaded into another car or the shipment may be 
diverted from the original destination without another 
shipper's certificate; but in all such cases the carrier 
shall immediately report the transaction by telegraph to 
the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, 
D. C. Such report shall include the information indi- 
cated below: 

{a) Nature of the emergency. 

(&) Place where seals were broken. 

(c) Origmal points of shipment and destination. 

{d) Number and initials of the original car. 

{e) Number and initials of the car into which the prod- 
uct is reloaded. 

(/) New destination of the shipment. 

ig) Kind and amount of product. 

Section 10. '^ Reshipments of inspected meat or meat Reshipment of 
food products which are sound and wholesome at the time ucts^*^''^®*^ ^^°^' 
of reshipment may be made without reinspection when 
the meat or meat food products, or the containers thereof, 
are marked "Inspected and Passed," and the meat or 
meat food products have not been processed since they 
were originally shipped under section 11 of this regulation. 
Also jobbers, wholesalers, or others who do no processing, 
and who receive "Inspected and Passed" meat or meat 
food products, may break bulk, repack, and reship the 
same into interstate commerce under section 11 of this 
regulation, if each piece of meat or meat food product in 
the unmarked package bears the original authorized 
mark of Government inspection. Inspection shall be 
maintained at the establishments of all such jobbers, 
wholesalers, or others who do any processing. 

"■ Formerly Meat Inspection Rulings 1 A. 



36 REG. 25. TEANSPOETATION. 

ins^ected^*^meat SECTION 11.^ When any caicass, part of carcass, or 
and meat food meat food product of Cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which 
products. j^^g been inspected and passed and so marked under these 

regulations is offered to any common carrier for trans- 
portation from one State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia to another State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia for interstate shipment only, or for interstate 
shipment as part of a foreign movement, or for foreign 
shipment, the person, firm, or corporation offering such 
carcass, part of carcass, or meat food product shall make 
a certificate in the following form and deliver the same to 
the said common carrier, except as provided in section 12 
of this regulation. 

Date 190... 

Name of common carrier 

Shipper 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the meat or meat food products described herein, 
which are offered for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, have 
been inspected and passed according to act of Congress of June 30, 
1906, are so marked, and at this date are sound, healthful, wholesome, 
and fit for human food. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.; 

(Address of shippei-.) 



This certificate may be stamped upon or incorporated 
in any form which is regularly or ordinarily used in the 
shipment of meat or meat food products. 

tw^een"in^*ected SECTION 12.^ Paragraph 1. An official establishment 
establishments, may sMp from the said establishment to any other official 
establishment any meat or meat food product which 
has been inspected and passed under these regulations 
without marking the same "Inspected and Passed," if 
Railroad car. such shipment be placed in a railroad car which is sealed 
by an employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and 
provided that not less than 25 per cent of the contents 
of each car consists of meat or meat food products not 
marked "Inspected and Passed." 
Wagons. Paragraph 2. Wagons so equipped that they can be 

securely sealed by a Department employee may be con- 
sidered as true containers. 

a Formerly Regulation 53, B. A. I. Order 137. 
& Formerly Regulation 54, B. A. I. Order 137. 



EEG. 25. TEANSPOKTATION. 37 

ParagrapTi 3. When shipments are made under para- ceHii.<2^te. 
graph 1 of this section the shipper shall make for each 
car and deliver to the common carrier in duplicate a cer- 
tificate in the following form: 

Date ..190... 

Name of common carrier 

Establishment number of consignor 

Point of shipment 

Establishment number of consignee 

Destination 

Car number and initials 



I hereby certify that the following-described meat or meat food 
products have been inspected and passed according to act of Congress 
of June 30, 1906. They are not marked "Inspected and Passed," 
but have been placed in the above car under the supervision of an 
employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry which was sealed by him 

with Government seals Nos and 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of Khipper.) 

(Address of shipper.) 

The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immedi- 
ately 'by the initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. Attention is di- 
rected to the law which provides a penalty of fine and 
imprisonment for any unauthorized person who breaks a 
seal on such cars. 

When shipments are made under this section the in- 
spector in charge at point of origin shall duly notify the 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry and the inspector 
in charge at point of destination. 

Section. 13.^ When any carcass, part of carcass, or Retail butch- 
meat food product of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which®" ^^^ dealers. 
has not been inspected under these regulations is offered 
for shipment from one State or Territory or the District 
of Columbia to another State or Territory or the District 
of Columbia by any retail butcher or retail dealer who 
holds a certificate of exemption issued by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, the common carrier shall require a certifi- 
cate to be made in duplicate in the following form by said 
retail butcher or retail dealer, wliich certificate shall in 
all cases show the exemption number designated by the 
Secretary of Agriculture for said retail butcher or retail 
dealer: 

Date 190... 

Name of common carrier 

Shipper 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination , 

Number of exemption certificate 

I hereby certify that I am a retail butcher or a retail dealer in meat 
or meat food products; that the following-described meat or meat food 
products are offered for shipment in interstate commerce to a cus- 

o Formerly Regulation 55, B. A. I. Order 137. 



38 KHG. 25. TRANSPOETATION. 

tomer, as exempted from inspection according to act of Congress of 
June 30, 1906, under certificate issued to me by the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and that at this date they are sound, 
healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, and contain no pre- 
servative or coloring matter or other substance prohibited by the 
regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture governing meat inspection. 
Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



uets. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 

The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immedi- 
ately by the initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. This certificate shall 
be separate and apart from any waybill, bill of lading, or 
other form ordinarily used in the shipment of meat. 

Farmers' prod- SECTION. 14."' When any Cattle, sheep, swine, or goats 
have been slaughtered by any farmer on the farm, and 
the carcasses, parts of carcasses, or meat food products 
thereof are offered to any common carrier for transporta- 
tion from one State or Territory or the District of Co- 
lumbia to another State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, the common carrier may so transport . such 
carcasses, parts of carcasses, or meat food products as 
long as the same may be identified as of animals slaugh- 
tered by any farmer on the farm. 

The common carrier shall require a certificate in dupli- 
cate in the following form : 

Date , 190... 

Name of common carrier 

Shipper .' 

Consignee 

Point of shipment 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following-described uninspected meat or 
naeat food products are from animals slaughtered by a farmer on the 
farm, and are offered for transportation in interstate commerce as 
exempted from inspection according to act of Congress of June 30, 
1906, and that at this date they are sound, healthful, wholesome, and 
fit for human food , and contain no preservative or coloring matter or 
other substance prohibited by the regulations of the Secretary of Agri- 
culture governing meat inspection. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 

(Address of shipper.) 

The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immedi- 
ately by the initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. 

Original certin- SECTION 15.^ All original Certificates delivered to the 
ftllrcar^fer^^ ''^" common Carrier, as required by this regulation, shall be 

a Formerly Regulation 56, B. A. I. Order 137. 
b Formerly Regulation 57, B. A. I. Order 137. 



REG. 25. TEAISTSPORTATION. 39 

filed and retained for one year by the initial carrier, in 
order that they may be readily checked by this Depart- 
ment in such manner as the Secretary of Agriculture 
may from time to time prescribe." 

Section 16.'' All waybills, transfer bills, running slips, waywus, etc. 
or conductor's cards accompanying an interstate or for- 
eign shipment of meat or meat food product must have 
embodied in, stamped upon, or attached to it a signed 
statement which shall be evidence to connecting carriers 
that the proper shipper's certificate as required by sec- 
tions 11, 12, 13, and 14 of this regulation is on file with the 
initial carrier, and no connecting carrier shall receive for 
transportation or transport any interstate or foreign ship- 
ment of meat or meat food product unless the waybill, 
transfer bill, running slip, or conductor's card accompany- 
ing the same includes the aforesaid signed statement in 
one of the following forms : 

When shipment is made under section 11 or 12: 

(Name of transportation company.) 

United States inspected and passed as evidenced by shipper's cer- 
tificate on file with initial carrier. 

(Signed) , Agent. 

Wlien shipment is made under section 13 or 14: 

(Name of transportation company.) 
Exempted from inspection as evidenced by shipper's certificate on 
file with initial carrier. 

(Signed) , Agent. 

Section 17. "^ Paragraph 1. When any carcass, part of j^shipment by 
carcass, or meat food product of cattle, sheep, swine, or 
goats loaded on a truck, wagon, cart, or other vehicle, or 
otherwise prepared for shipment, is offered for transpor- 
tation or transported by ferry, such ferry being the initial 
carrier from one State, Territory, or the District of Colum- 
bia to another State, Territory, or the District of Colum- 
bia, the person, firm, or corporation offering such carcass, 
part of carcass, or meat food product shall, except as here- 
inafter provided by paragraph 5, make a certificate in one 
of the forms hereinafter indicated and deliver the certifi- 
cate to said common carrier; and no person, firm, or cor- 
poration operating a ferry line as aforesaid shall receive 
for transportation or transport any carcass, part of car- 
cass, or meat food product of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats 
loaded on a truck, wagon, cart, or other vehicle, or in any 
other manner prepared for transportation, unless a certifi- 
cate in one of the forms referred to is properly filled out 
and delivered by the shipper as herein required. 

Paragraph 2. When the shipment consists of inspected 
and passed meat or meat food products, the form of cer- 
tificate shown in section 11 of this regulation shall be used. 

" Stocks of printed certificates now on hand may be used, but as 
new supplies are printed they should conform to the forms prescribed. 
& Formerly Regulation 58, B. A. I. Order 137. 
c Formerly Regulation 65, B. A. I. Order 137. 



40 



Shipment 
ferry. 



KEG. 25. TRANSPOKTATION. 



by Paragraph 3. When the shipment is made under ex- 
emption and consists of meat or meat food product which 
has not been inspected and passed, the form of certificate 
shown in section 13 of this regulation shall be used, -and a 
dupHcate shall be forwarded immediately by the ferry 
company to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
Washington, D. C. 

Paragraph 4- When the shipment consists of meat or 
meat food products from animals slaughtered by a farmer 
on the farm and which have not been inspected and 
passed, the form of certificate shown in section 14 of this 
regulation shall be used, and a duplicate shall be forwarded 
immediately by the ferry company to the Chief of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. 

Paragraph 5. When a shipper's certificate for meat or 
meat food products has been issued and is on file with the 
initial carrier and that fact is shown by notation on the 
billing, the ferry company need not require another 
certificate. 



^^ 



Imported prod- SECTION 18.^ Imported meat or meat food products 
which have not been mixed or compounded with or added 
to domestic meat or meat food products may be trans- 
ported by any common carrier from one State or Territory 
or the District of Columbia into another State or Terri- 
tory or the District of Columbia if the packages contain- 
ing them are marked ' ' Inspected under the Food and Drugs 
Act of June 30, 1906," when received for transportation. 

Shipment of SECTION 19.'' Paragraph 1. Meat or meat food prod- 
products alleged , i-ii -i • jii i i 
or known to be ucts which liave been inspected and passed and so 

unfit for food, marked, and which have been transported from the es- 
tablishments in which they were prepared into the chan- 
nels of trade, and which are alleged or known to have 
become unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for 
human food, may be transported in interstate commerce 
only under the following restrictions : 

ed^esTaMFsh*' Paragraph 2. Meat or meat food products inspected 
ment. and passed and so marked and which are alleged to be 

unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human 
food may be shipped from one State or Territory 
or the District of Columbia to any official establish- 
ment in the same or a dift'erent State or Territory 
if a written permit in duplicate for such shipment be 
first obtained from the inspector in charge of the 
establishment to which the shipment is destined. In 
all such shipments both the original and duplicate 
copies of the permits shall be surrendered to the car- 
rier accepting the meat or meat food product, and the 
carrier shall require the shipper to furnish three copies 

aFormerly Regulation 64, B. A. I. Order 137. 
& Formerly Regulation 61, B. A. I. Order 137. 



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EEG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 41 

of the form of certificate hereinafter given. One of these 
certificates and the duphcate copy of the permit shall be 
retained by the carrier; another copy of the certificate, 
together with the original permit, shall be mailed by the 
carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
Washington, D. C, and the third copy of the certificate shall 
be addressed and mailed by the carrier to the Bureau of Ani- 
mal Industry inspector in charge at the point to which the 
shipment is consigned. Upon the arrival of the shipment 
at the establishment the inspector in charge shall cause a 
careful inspection to be made of the shipment, to determine 
whether or not it is unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise 
unfit for food. Should the meat or meat food product 
contained in the shipment prove to be unsound, unwhole- 
some, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall at once 
be stamped ''U. S. Inspected and Condemned" and be 
immediately tanked or removed to the condemned room. 
If the meat or meat food product contained in the ship- 
ment shall prove to be sound, wholesome, and fit for hu- 
man food, the inspector shall allow the meat or meat food 
product to enter the establishment. Meat or meat food 
products at an official establishment alleged or known to 
be unsound, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human 
food shall not be shipped under this paragraph, but must 
be disposed of at the establishment. 

ParaqravJi 3. Meat or meat food products which have Jo jobber, 

, •!! 11 111 wholesaler, or 

been inspected and passed and are so marked and are dealer. 
alleged to be unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit 
for human food may be returned from one State or Ter- 
ritory or the District of Columbia to any jobber, whole- 
saler, or other dealer from whom the said meat or meat 
food product was purchased, if a written permit, in dupli- 
cate, for such shipment be first obtained from the Chief 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry. In all such shipments 
both the original and duplicate copies of the permits shall 
be surrendered to the carrier accepting the meat or meat 
food product, and the carrier shall require the shipper to 
furnish two copies of the form of certificate hereinafter 
given. One of these certificates and the duplicate copy 
of the permit shall be retained by the carrier, and the other 
copy of the certificate, together with the original permit, 
shall be mailed by the carrier to the Chief or the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. If the meat or 
meat food product which is shipped under tliis section shall 
prove to be unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for 
human food it may not be reshipped in interstate com- 
merce as a food product. 

Paragraph I^. The shipper's certificate required by para- j,s™e°/ig^^lP' 
■graphs 2 and 3 of this section shall be in the following ^*"^ ^ ^^^^ *'*''■ 



42 REG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 

form, and shall in all cases show a description and the 
weight of the meat or meat food product : °' 

Date 190... 

Name of common carrier 

Consignor 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

Number of permit 

I hereby certify that the following-described meat or meat food prod- 
ucts have been inspected and passed according to the act of Congress 
of June 30, 1906, and are so marked. It is alleged that the said meat 
or meat food products are unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, and 
unfit for human food. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Business or occupation of shipper.) 
(Address of slilpper.) 



As evidence to connecting carriers that the proper 
shipper's certificate as required by this paragraph is on 
file with the initial carrier, the waybills, transfer bills, 
running slips, or conductors' cards accompanying the 
shipments of meat or meat food products, made under 
paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section, must have embodied 
in, stamped upon, or attached to the. same a signed state- 
ment in the following form: 

(Name of railroad company.) 
Meat or meat product alleged to be unsound, unwholesome, or other- 
wise unfit for food, as evidenced by shipper's certificate on file with 
initial carrier. 

(Signed) Agent. 

pu^oses.^"^*'^^^ • Paragraph 5. Uninspected meat or meat food product, 
or meat or meat food product inspected and marked and 
which is known to haye become unsound, unwholesome, 
or otherwise unfit for human food, or inedible grease or tal- 
low or other fat, may be shipped from one State or Territory 
or the District of Columbia to another State or Terri- 
tory or the District of Columbia or to a foreign country for 
industrial purposes. No such shipment shall be accepted 
by any carrier unless and until the product which is known 
to be unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for food 
shall have been denatured or othenvise rendered unavail- 
able for food purposes. The carrier shall require the 
shipper to certify in writing that the meat or meat food 
product has been so denatured or otherwise rendered un- 
available for food purposes. This certificate of the ship- 
per that the meat or meat food product has been de- 

o Attention is directed to the meat-inspection law, which provides 
a penalty of a fine of |10,000 and imprisonment for two years for any 
person who ships for human consumption in interstate or foreign trade 
any meat or meat food product which is unsound, unwholesome, or 
otherwise unfit for human food. 



EEG. 25. TEANSPOETATION. 43 

natured shall be forwarded, by the carrier to the Chief of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. It 
is suggested that the shipper's certificate of denaturing 
required for shipments made under this paragraph be in 
the following form: 

Date 190.. 

Name of common carrier 

Consignor 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following-described inedible meat or meat 
food products have been denatured or otherwise rendered unavailable 
for food piirposes. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Business or occupation of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 



As evidence to connecting carriers that the proper 
shipper's certificate is on file with the initial carrier, the 
waybills, transfer bills, running slips, or conductors' cards 
accompanying the shipment of meat or meat food product 
under this paragraph must have embodied in, stamped 
upon, or attached to the same a signed statement in the 
following form: 

(Name of railroad company.) 

Unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for food, and denatured 
or otherwise rendered unavailable for food purposes, as evidenced by 
shipper's certificate on file with the initial carrier. 

(Signed) Agent. 

Paragraph, 6. When inedible grease, tallow, or other 
fat for industrial use is of such a nature or is intended for 
such an industrial use that it is impracticable to denature 
the same or that denaturing will make it impossible to 
put the product to the desired industrial use, such inedi- 
ble grease, tallow, or other fat may be shipped from one 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia to another 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to a 
foreign country, without denaturing if the outside con- 
tainer of the said inedible grease, tallow, ot other fat be 
marked as follows: The end of the containers shall be 
painted white and conspicuously stenciled or burned with 
the true name of the product and the word "Inedible." 

No such shipment shall be accepted by any carrier 
unless and until the shipper shall certify in writing that 
the said inedible grease, tallow, or other fat is of such a 
character or is intended for such use that denaturing is 
impossible or will render said inedible grease, tallow, or 
other fat unavailable for the desired industrial use. 

The shipper's certificate shall be in the following form: 



44 REGS. 25, 26. TRANSPORTATION: COUNTERFEITING. 

(Date) , 190.. 

INEDIBLE FAT. 

Name of common carrier 

Consignor 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following-described fat is inedible and is 
not intended for food purposes, and that the said fat is of such a char- 
acter or is intended for such a use that denaturing is impossible or will 
render said fat unavailable for the desired industrial use. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Business or occupation of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 



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As evidence to connecting ' carriers that the proper 
shipper's certificate is on file with the initial carrier, the 
waybills, transfer bills, running slips, or conductors' cards 
accompanying such shipments must have embodied in, 
stamped upon, or attached to the same a signed statement 
in the following form: 

(Name of carrier) 

Inedible and not intended for food purposes, as evidenced by ship- 
per's certificate on file with the initial carrier. 

(Signed) Agent. 

The shipper's certificate will be made in duplicate, and 
one copy shall be immediately forwarded by the carrier 
to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

REGTJIiATION 26. COUNTERFEITING, ETC. 

Penalties. SECTION 1 . It is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and 

imprisonment, for. any person, firm, or corporation, or 
officer, agent, or employee thereof, to forge, counterfeit, 
simulate, or falsely represent, or without proper authority 
to use, fail to use, or detach, or knowingly or wrongfully 
to alter, deface, or destroy, or to fail to deface or destroy, 
any of the marks, stamps, tags, labels, or other identifi- 
cation devices provided for by law, or by these regula- 
tions, on any carcasses, parts of carcasses, or the food 
product, or the containers thereof, or wrongfully to use, 
deface, or destroy any certificate provided for by law or 
by these regulations. 



■REGS. 27, 28, 29. HEPOETS; APPEALS; COOPERATION". 45 

REGULATION 27. REPORTS. 

Section 1. Reports of the work of inspection carried ofwork. 
on in every official estabKshment shall be forwarded to 
the Department by the inspector in charge, on such blank 
forms and in such manner as may be specified by the 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Section 2. The proprietors of official establishments ^^in for ma^twn 
shall furnish daily to the Department employees detailed 
to the various departments accurate information regard- 
ing receipts, shipments, and amounts of products on 
wliich to base their daily reports. 

Section 3. Reports on sanitation shall be made at on sanitation. 
stated times by the Department employees in charge of 
the various departments to the inspector in charge of the 
station, and by the inspector in charge to the Chief of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry. If any insanitary condi- 
tions are detected by any Department employee, such 
conditions shall be reported immediately to the inspector 
in charge, who, after investigation, shall report them to 
the Chief of the Bureau. 

REGULATION 28. APPEALS. 

Section 1. When the action of any inspector in con- Appeals, 
demning any carcass or part thereof, meat, or meat food 
product is questioned, appeal may be made to the 
inspector in charge, and from his decision appeal may be 
made to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry or to 
the Secretary of Agriculture, whose decision shall be final. 

regulation 29. COOPERATION WITH MUNICIPAL 
AUTHORITIES. 

Section 1. Inspectors in charge are directed to notify Municipal au- 

,1 • • 1 jTi -i.' r J.1 1 J. J • J- thorities to be no- 

the municipal authorities ot the character or inspection, tifled. 
and upon request to advise with such authorities with a 
view to preventing the entry into the local markets of 
diseased animals or their products. The details of any 
proposed cooperative arrangement must be first submitted 
to and approved by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry. 



LAW UNDER WHICH THE FOREGOING REGULATIONS ARE MADE. 



Extract from an act of Congress entitled "An act making appro- 
priations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending 
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven," approved June 30, 1906 
(34 Stat., 674). 

THE MEAT-INSPECTION AMENDMENT. 

That for the purpose of preventing the use in interstate or foreign commerce, as herein- 
after providect, of meat and meat food products which are unsound, unhealthful, 
unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, the Secretary of Agriculture, at his 
discretion, may cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that purpose, an exam- 
ination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats before they shall be allowed 
to enter into any slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establish- 
ment, in which they are to be slaughtered and the meat and meat food products thereof 
are to be used in interstate or foreign commerce; and all cattle, swine, sheep, and 
goats found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease shall be set apart and 
slaughtered separately from all other cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, and when so slaugh- 
tered the carcasses of said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats shall be subject to a careful 
examination and inspection, all as provided by the rules and regulations to be pre- 
scribed by the Secretary of Agriculture as herein provided for. 

That for the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause 
to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, a post- 
mortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, 
sheep, swine, and goats to be prepared for human consumption at any slaughtering, 
meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in any State, 
Territory, or the District of Columbia for transportation or sale as articles of interstate 
or foreign commerce ; and the carcasses and parts thereof of all such animals found to 
be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food shall be marked, stamped, 
tagged, or labeled as "Inspected and Passed;" and said inspectors shall label, mark, 
stamp, or tag as "Inspected and Condemned," all carcasses and parts thereof of 
animals found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human 
food; and all carcasses and parts thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be 
destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, 
and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any such establishment 
which fails to so "destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof, and said inspect- 
ors, after said first inspection shall, when they deem it necessary, reinspect said 
carcasses or parts thereof to determine whether since the first inspection the same 
have become unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human 
food, and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination and inspection 
subsequent to the first examination and inspection, be found to be unsound, unhealth- 
ful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall be destroyed for food 
purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary 
of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy 
any such condemned carcass or part thereof. 

The foregoing provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, 
sheep, swine, and goats, or the meat or meat products thereof which may be brought 
into any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar estab- 
lishment, and such examination and inspection shall be had before the said carcasses 
or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are 
to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and the foregoing provisions 
shall also apply to all such products which, after having been issued from any slaugh- 
tering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, shall 
be returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is 
maintained. 

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MEAT-INSPECTION LAW. 47 

That for the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause 
to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspection 
of all meat food products prepared for interstate or foreign commerce in any slaughter- 
ing, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, and for the 
purposes of any examination and inspection said inspectors shall have access at all 
times, by day or night, whether the establishment be operated or not, to every part 
of said establishment; and said inspectors shall mark, stamp, tag, or label as "In- 
spected and Passed" all such products found to be sound, healthful, and wholesome, 
and which contain no dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which render 
such meat or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for 
human food; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as "Inspected and 
Condemned" all such products found unsound, unhealthful, and unwholesome, or 
which contain dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which render such meat 
or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unY/holesorhe, or unfit for human food, 
and all such condemned meat food products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as 
hereinbefore provided, and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from 
any establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned meat food products: 
Provided, That, subject to the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
the provisions hereof in regard to preservatives shall not apply to meat food products 
for export to any foreign country and which are prepared or packed according to the 
specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser, when no substance is used in the 
preparation or packing thereof in conflict with tlae laws of the foreign country to 
which said article is to be exported; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered 
for sale for domestic use or consumption, then this proviso shall not exempt said 
article from the operation of all the other provisions of this act. 

That when any meat or meat food product prepared for interstate or foreign com- 
merce which has been inspected as hereinbefore provided and marked "Inspected 
and Passed" shall be placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other recep- 
tacle or covering in any establishment where inspection under the provisions of this 
act is maintained, the person, firm, or corporation preparing said product shall cause 
a label to be attached to said can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering, 
under the supervision of an inspector, which label shall state that the contents thereof 
have been "Inspected and Passed" under the provisions of this act; and no inspec- 
tion and examination of meat or meat food products deposited or inclosed in cans, 
tins, pots, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where inspec- 
tion under the provisions of this act is maintained shall be deemed to be complete 
until such meat or meat food products have been sealed or inclosed in said can, tin, 
pot, canvas, or other receptacle or covering under the supervision of an inspector, 
and no such meat or meat food products shall be sold or offered for sale by any person, 
firm, or corporation in interstate or foreign commerce under any false or deceptive 
name; but established trade name or names which are usual to such products and 
which are not false and deceptive and which shall be approved by the Secretary of 
Agriculture are permitted. 

The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be made, by experts in sanitation or by 
other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat-canning, salt- 
ing, packing, rendering, or similar establishments in which cattle, sheep, swine, and 
goats are slaughtered and the meat and meat food products thereof are prepared for 
interstate or foreign commerce as may be necessary to inform himself concerning the 
sanitary conditions of the same, and to prescribe the rules and regulations of sanita- 
tion under which such establishments shall be maintained; and where the sanitary 
conditions of any such establishment are such that the meat or meat food products 
are rendered unclean, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for 
human food, he shall refuse to allow said meat or meat food products to be labeled, 
marked, stamped, or tagged as "Inspected and Passed." 

That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause an examination and inspection of all 
cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, and the food products thereof, slaughtered and pre- 
pared in the establishments hereinbefore described for the purposes of interstate or 
foreign commerce to be made during the nighttime as well as during the daytime 
when the slaughtering of said cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, or the preparation of 
said food products is conducted during the nighttime. 

That on and after October first, nineteen hundred and six, no person, firm, or 
corporation shall transport or offer for transportation, and no carrier of interstate or 
foreign commerce shall transport or receive for transportation from one State or Ter- 
ritory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to any for- 
eign country, any carcasses or parts thereof, meat, or meat food products thereof 
which have not been inspected, examined, and marked as "Inspected and Passed," 



48 MEAT-liTSPECTION LAW. 

in accordance with the terms of this act and with the rules and regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That all meat and meat food products 
on hand on October first, nineteen hundred and six, at establishments where inspec- 
tion has not been maintained, or which have been inspected under existing law, 
shall be examined and labeled under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall prescribe, and then shall be allowed to be sold in interstate or foreign 
commerce. 

That no person, firm, or corporation, or officer, agent, or employee thereof, shall 
forge, counterfeit, simulate, or falsely represent, or shall without proper authority 
use, fail to use, or detach, or shall knowingly or wrongfully alter, deface, or destroy, 
or fail to deface or destroy, any of the marks, stamps, tags, labels, or other identifi- 
cation devices provided for in this act, or in and as directed by the rules and regu- 
lations prescribed hereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture, on any carcasses, parts 
of carcasses, or the food product, or containers thereof, subject to the provisions of 
this act, or any certificate in relation thereto, authorized or required by this act or 
by the said rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture. 

That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be made a careful inspection of all 
cattle, sheep, swine, and goats intended and offered for export to foreign countries 
at such times and places, and in such manner as he may deem proper, to ascertain 
whether such cattle, sheep, swine, and goats are free from disease. 

And for this purpose he may appoint inspectors who shall be authorized to give 
an official certificate clearly stating the condition in which such cattle, sheep, swine, 
and goats are found. 

And no clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board cattle, sheep, swine, 
or goats for export to a foreign country until the owner or shipper of such cattle, sheep, 
swine, or goats has a certificate from the inspector herein authorized to be appointed, 
stating that the said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are sound and healthy, or unless 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall have waived the requirement of sucli certificate 
for export to the particular country to which such cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are to 
be exported. 

That the Secretary of Agriculture shall also cause to be made a careful inspection 
of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, the meat of 
which, fresh, salted, canned, corned, packed, cured, or otherwise prepared, is in- 
tended and offered for export to any foreign country, at such times and places and 
in such manner as he may deem proper. 

And for this purpose he may appoint inspectors who shall be authorized to give 
an official certificate stating the condition in which said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, 
and the meat thereof, are found. 

And no clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board any fresh, salted, 
canned, corned, or packed beef, mutton, pork, or goat meat, being the meat of ani- 
mals killed after the passage of this act, or except as hereinbefore provided for export 
to and sale in a foreign country from any port in the United States, until the owner 
or shipper thereof shall obtain from an inspector appointed under the provisions of 
this act a certificate that the said cattle, sheep, swine, and goats were sound and 
healthy at the time of inspection, and that their meat is sound and wholesome, unless 
the Secretary of Agricultiu'e shall have waived the requirements of such certificate 
for the country to which said cattle, sheep, swine, and goats or, meats are to be ex- 
ported. 

That the inspectors provided for herein shall be authorized to give official certifi- 
cates of the sound and wholesome condition of the cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, 
their carcasses and products as herein described, and one copy of every certificate 
granted under the provisions of this act shall be filed in the Department of Agricul- 
ture, another copy shall be delivered to the owner or shipper, and when^ the cattle, 
sheep, swine, and goats or their carcasses and products are sent abroad, a third copy 
shall be delivered to the chief officer of the vessel on which the shipment shall be 
made. 

That no person, firm, or corporation engaged in the interstate commerce of meat or 
meat food products shall transport or offer for transportation, sell or offer to sell any 
such meat or meat food products in any State or Territory or in the District of Colum- 
bia or any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, other than in the State 
or Territory or in the District of Columbia or any place under the jurisdiction of the 
United States in which the slaughtering, packing, canning, rendering, or other similar 
establishment owned, leased, operated by said firm, person, or corporation is located 
unless and until said person, firm, or corporation shall have complied with all of the 
provisions of this act. 

That any person, firm, or corporation, or any officer or agent of any such person, 
firm, or corporation, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished on conviction thereof by a fine of not 



MEAT-INSPECTION LAW. 49 

exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment for a period not more than two years , 
or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 

That the Secretary of Agriculture shall appoint from time to time inspectors to make 
examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, the inspection of 
which is hereby provided for, and of all carcasses and parts thereof, and of all meats 
and meat food products thereof, and of the sanitary conditions of all establishments 
in which such meat and meat food products hereinbefore described are prepared; 
and said inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag, or label any carcass or any part 
thereof, or meat food product therefrom, prepared in any establishment hereinbefore 
mentioned, until the same shall have actually been inspected and found to be sound, 
healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, and to contain no dyes, chemicals, 
preservatives, or ingredients which render such meat food product unsound, unheal th- 
ful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food; and to have been prepared under proper 
sanitary conditions, hereinbefore provided for; and shall perform such other duties 
as are provided by this act and by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said 
Secretary of Agriculture; and said Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time, 
make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the efficient execution of the 
provisions of this act, and all inspections and examinations made under this act shall 
be such and made in such manner as described in the rules and regulations prescribed 
by said Secretary of Agricultiu'e not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 

That any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm, 
or corporation, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any inspector, 
deputy inspector, chief inspector, or any other officer or employee of the United 
States authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act or by the rules 
and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture any money or other thing of value, 
with intent to influence said inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other 
officer or employee of the United States in the discharge of any duty herein provided 
for, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by a fine not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and 
by imprisonment not less than one year nor more than three years; and any inspector, 
deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other officer or employee of the United States 
authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act who shall accept any 
money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, firm, or corporation, or officers, 
agents, or employees thereof, given with intent to influence his official action, or who 
shall receive or accept from any person, firm, or corporation engaged in interstate or 
foreign commerce any gift, money, or other thing of value given with any purpose or 
intent whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall, upon conviction thereof, 
be summarily discharged from office and shall be punished by a fine not less than one 
thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and by imprisonment not less 
than one year nor more than three years. 

That the provisions of this act requiring inspection to be made by the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall not apply to animals slaughtered by any farmer on the farm and sold 
and transported as interstate or foreign commerce, nor to retail butchers and retail 
dealers in meat and meat food products, supplying their customers: Provided, That 
if any person shall sell or offer for sale or transportation for interstate or foreign com- 
merce any meat or meat food products which are diseased, unsound, unhealtliful, 
unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing that such meat food prod- 
ucts are intended for human consumption, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars 
or by imprisonment for a period of not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment: Provided also, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to main- 
tain the inspection in this act provided for at any slaughtering, meat canning, salting, 
packing, rendering, or similar establishment notwithstanding this exception, and 
that the persons operating the same may be retail butchers and retail dealers or 
farmers; and where the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish such inspection then 
the provisions of this act shall apply notwithstanding this exception. 

That there is permanently appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- 
wise appropriated, tlie sum of three million dollars, for the expenses of the inspection 
of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats and the meat and meat food products thereof which 
enter into interstate or foreign commerce and for all expenses necessary to carry into 
effect the provisions of this act relating to meafe inspection, including rent and the 
employment of labor in Washington and elscAvhere, for each year. And the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall, in his annual estimates made to Congress, sul^mit a statement in 
detail, showing the number of persons employed in such inspections and the salary 
or per diem paid to each, together with the contingent expenses of such inspectors 
and where they have been and are employed. 








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